Voice box

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A voice box, (interchangeably called a voicebox, voice capacitor, voice chip, vocoder, voice synthesizer, or a speech synthesizer) is a biomechanism that allows Transformers to speak in the spoken word. Without the aid of a voice box, a Transformer can usually only communicate via electronic noises which can be interpreted by others of their kind but not generally by humans—unless you are Raf Esquivel...

Or Cody Burns.

Or Dani Burns.

Or Izabella.

Fiction

Live-action film series

IDW Movie comics

When the AllSpark was due to be launched off Cybertron, Bumblebee distracted Megatron long enough for the sacred relic to plunge into a wormhole and out of the tyrant's immediate grasp. Before he launched off after it, in act of utterly petty revenge, Megatron crushed the scout's voice capacitor beyond repair. Movie Prequel #1 After the battle in Mission City, Bumblebee regained his voice Alliance #1 but lost it soon thereafter when he threw himself in front of one of Starscream's attacks, saving Salani and Robert Epps. Alliance #2

The Last Knight

Daytrader provided Bumblebee with a new voice box that he'd managed to pick up on his travels. Upon installation, however, Bumblebee was quite miffed to find it wasn't his voice. He reacted to this by willingly tearing out the voice box and discarding it. He inexplicably regained his speech when duelling Nemesis Prime. The Last Knight

Bumblebee film

When scout B-127 arrived on Earth, he was quickly targeted by the Decepticon Blitzwing and interrogated for the location of Optimus Prime. When the scout refused to speak, Blitzwing decided to "make it official" and ripped out his speech synthesis chip. Bumblebee

Animated cartoon continuity

As part of his revenge against Bumblebee, Wasp usurped the Autobot's identity, even swapping their voice synthesizers, something the rest of Bumblebee's team was unwilling to believe at first. When he was exposed, Wasp swapped their voices back. Where Is Thy Sting?

Aligned continuity family

Fall of Cybertron

When the Ark was boarded, Bumblebee was briefly knocked into stasis lock. When he came to, Ratchet gave him a once over, noting the scout was fine, minus the still crushed voice chip. Fall of Cybertron

Prime cartoon

During the Great War, Megatron tortured Bumblebee for information at Tyger Pax. His life was saved by Ratchet, but his voice box was not. Operation Bumblebee, Part 1

Megatron said the first Decepticon on his crew to address Orion Pax as "Optimus Prime" would have their voice box torn out. Orion Pax, Part 1

Ratchet regretted his inability to repair Bumblebee's voice box and doubted he'd be able to repair Bee's T-cog as well. Operation Bumblebee, Part 2

While Bumblebee was able to adjust to his limited form of speech, bringing up the topic of his voice box was still a sore subject for him. He was particularly offended by Smokescreen's saying that his substitute voice box was his signature and he shouldn't want to replace it. Minus One

Ratchet mentioned Megatron destroying Bumblebee's voice box as one of the reasons for refusing to help perfect the Synthetic Energon formula for him before the tyrant's promise of Cybertronian technology and a reborn Cybertron won the Autobot over. Persuasion

When Bumblebee's lifeless body fell into the Omega Lock's energy field, the cyber-matter not only restored his spark, but his voice box as well. Deadlock

Rescue Bots cartoon

When Bumblebee first stopped by at Griffin Rock, Blades explained Bumblebee's lack of speech to the Burns family. Bumblebee to the Rescue They were quite surprised to see he'd regained his vocal ability some years later. Uninvited Guest

Robots in Disguise 2015

Upon realizing that Blastwave was unable to speak except through grunting and Cybertronian Sign Language, Bumblebee thought that the bounty hunter's voice box was also damaged like his had originally been. Guilty As Charged

Beast Wars: Uprising

During the horrific event known as the Rending, Throttlebot commander Goldbug's vocoder was shredded, leaving him unable to speak. He instead communicated by text dispatch for orders requiring clarity, and snippets of old Earth songs when emotion or urgency was required. Derailment

Cyberverse cartoon

In the latter stages of the Great War, Bumblebee discovered that the Decepticons had captured Vector Sigma only to be discovered during his mission. Brought before Megatron, the tyrant revealed he would use Vector Sigma to have the AllSpark birth a new generation of Decepticons. In an act of pure sadism, the warlord tore then tore out Bumblebee's voice box to prevent him from speaking about what he'd seen. Megatron Is My Hero

2019 IDW continuity

As Rubble eagerly bounced around the wilderness outside Iacon, the ignored Bumblebee sarcastically asked if his voice-box was malfunctioning. The World In Your Eyes Part One

IDW Shattered Glass continuity

When Ultra Magnus swapped bodies with Optimus Prime, he had his body's voice box disabled, leaving Optimus Prime to impotently scream in his new body. Shattered Glass II #5

One film

During their fight, D-16 crushed Starscream's throat until his voice became high-pitched and scratchy. Sentinel Prime would later mock Starscream about his new voice sounding ridiculous and weird. One