From mfournier@ox.ac.uk Fri Jan 12 16:16:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!mfournier From: mfournier@ox.ac.uk (Mikhail Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan12.161648.4801@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:16:48 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Mikhail Fournier *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From hlaurent@inria.fr Sat Jan 13 00:45:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!hlaurent From: hlaurent@inria.fr (Hugo Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan13.004548.9084@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:45:48 GMT References: <1996Jan12.161648.4801@ox.ac.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan12.161648.4801@ox.ac.uk>, mfournier@ox.ac.uk (Mikhail Fournier) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Hugo Laurent | hlaurent@inria.fr PGP Key fingerprint: D694 EE9B F85C E086 "Keep the channels open."