From bdubois@inria.fr Tue Oct 24 22:43:30 1995
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Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

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.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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=== Brian Dubois ===
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From ggonzalez@titech.ac.jp Wed Oct 25 01:13:30 1995
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In article <1995Oct24.224330.2368@inria.fr>, bdubois@inria.fr (Brian Dubois) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code.

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Graham González -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."