[monkpit]

First off, I love Daft Punk and I’ve heard all of these song countless times.

But, sorry, I don’t buy it. I am aware of the talking piano effect, but even the wiki page [0] says it’s a vocoder, which is something entirely different.

Similar to other commenters here [1], I don’t hear the pattern described for the octave effect either.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Rock_(song)https://en....

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37104083

[jpalawaga]

Switched on Pop dived into Daft Punk[1] and definitely identified Daft Punk's robot voices as vocoder. Actually, most robot voices are.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/52t5WCspFuFkow374P88wA (but also Ep 1 and 3).

[ugurnot]

It is not the vocoder but the guitar riff that sounds like robot rock.

[lamp_book]

The “guitar” is actually a synth with guitar pedals, and yes the effect is from a vocoder. Linked in the wiki: https://web.archive.org/web/20080221104737/http://www.thedaf...