[linux-audio-user] Vocoder

[Steve Harris]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 05:17:23 +0100, Lorenzo Bicci wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> I've found a software Linux vocoder 
> (http://www.sirlab.de/linux/download_vocoder.html) which is available both as 
> a LADSPA plugin and a standalone program.
> 
> I've got an old Pentium 166MMX with 64MB RAM which is unused, and i'd like to 
> use it as a live vocoder. It would be cool to bring it on the stage, plug a 
> keyboard and a microphone in its audio board(s), turn it on without any 
> display, mouse or keyboard and have it already working as a vocoder.

The Pentium I series didnt have very fast floating point units, so you
might be asking too much for it to run a vocoder in realtime.

- Steve