Water vapour speaker?

[bigwill]

We all know the water bending experiment with a charged comb. Does steam behave this way? How about charging some steam and passing it over some kind of conductor with the opposite charge modulated with a signal?
I could write more but I think the mechanics of such a thing are fairly obvious

Anyone ever tried this?

[Amp_Nut]

The mass of such a diaphram would be quite substantial, no ?

I recall reading more than a decade ago ... a speaker that used ionised Ozone, as a diphram responding to an electric field....

[exurbia]

Bigwill,
What sort of steam did you have in mind Dry or Wet ?
Wouldn't wet steam be rather a problem especially in a humid climate ? And dry steam is just downright lethal, we use 350 deg dry steam @ 700psi.
Perhaps modulating a high pressure feed would be the answer, we could use the steam to move a small piston connected to a loudspeaker diaphragm

[bigwill]

What I had in mind was small jets of steam fired at some kind of mesh with a high voltage signal applied to it (as well as a high voltage bias)

The steam would be attracted (or repelled depending how you charged the water) in sympathy with the audio signal, hopefully creating pressure waves

[OlogyAudio]

An ionic breeze converted into a speaker using water vapor (ultra sonic mister or something) sounds like my idea of fun