From fsouza@berkeley.edu Sun Dec 03 03:52:51 1995
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From: fsouza@berkeley.edu (Freya Souza)
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Subject: [INFO] 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?

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

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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From bpopov@uu.net Sun Dec 03 20:31:51 1995
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Dec03.035251.1316@berkeley.edu>, fsouza@berkeley.edu (Freya Souza) writes:
> Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision.

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From tivanov@delphi.com Mon Dec 04 05:47:51 1995
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From: tivanov@delphi.com (Takeshi Ivanov)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Dec03.035251.1316@berkeley.edu>, fsouza@berkeley.edu (Freya Souza) writes:
> Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis.

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