'Talkbox' is multidisciplinary artist Michael O'Mahony's third album. Its sonic signature is the Vocaloid software synthesizer - the titular talkbox - famously by Japanese cartoon Hatsune Miku. Excited by the emotive potential and realism of Vocaloid's voice synthesis, he began to imagine an album that combined its capabilities with Italo disco- and UK garage-inflected sounds. As the version of Vocaloid O'Mahony had access to sang only in Japanese, O'Mahony relied on Google Translate to obtain the required characters to enter into the software. Eventually, he amassed a library of syllables and phonetic sounds, from which he created the melodies crystallised on the record.