From nsilva@tum.de Sat Mar 04 21:14:13 1995
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From: nsilva@tum.de (Nadia Silva)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.
Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation.

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From ckowalski@mit.edu Mon Mar 06 18:17:13 1995
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From: ckowalski@mit.edu (Callum Kowalski)
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In article <1995Mar04.211413.6825@tum.de>, nsilva@tum.de (Nadia Silva) writes:
> Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice.

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Callum Kowalski -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."