My vocoder sounds bad

1. Do you sing or speak into a vocoder?
2. Is a vocoder like Autotune?
3. What does a vocoder do to the human voice?
4. Is a vocoder a synth?

Do you sing or speak into a vocoder?

Carry on singing

Note that it's the voice characteristics that are imposed upon the carrier, not the voice pitch, so to make your voice 'sing' you talk into the vocoder and generate the required notes by changing the pitch of the carrier, perhaps by playing a keyboard.

Is a vocoder like Autotune?

No. Vocoders send a sound through the frequency and volume envelop of another sound while autotune quantized audio to one of the 12 note frequencies. A Vocoder is a variable robotic effect that you blend or proccess with an audio signal, Guitar voice etc.

What does a vocoder do to the human voice?

A vocoder (/ˈvoʊkoʊdər/, a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.

Is a vocoder a synth?

A vocoder is a special type of synthesizer that changes how your voice sounds. By running your vocal track through the vocoder, you can make it sound more robotic.