From sivanov@inria.fr Mon Jul 11 13:11:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!sivanov From: sivanov@inria.fr (Steve Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul11.131122.5168@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 13:11:22 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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? -- Steve Ivanov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From msanchez@pacbell.net Tue Jul 12 17:48:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!msanchez From: msanchez@pacbell.net (Marisol Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul12.174822.9806@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 17:48:22 GMT References: <1994Jul11.131122.5168@inria.fr> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul11.131122.5168@inria.fr>, sivanov@inria.fr (Steve Ivanov) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Marisol Sánchez -- Pacific Bell Internet Services "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From hkowalski@cern.ch Wed Jul 13 23:43:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!hkowalski From: hkowalski@cern.ch (Heather Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul13.234322.6598@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 23:43:22 GMT References: <1994Jul11.131122.5168@inria.fr> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul11.131122.5168@inria.fr>, sivanov@inria.fr (Steve Ivanov) 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. -- Heather Kowalski *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From rwatanabe@netcom.com Fri Jul 15 04:59:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!rwatanabe From: rwatanabe@netcom.com (Raj Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul15.045922.2240@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 04:59:22 GMT References: <1994Jul11.131122.5168@inria.fr> <1994Jul12.174822.9806@pacbell.net> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul12.174822.9806@pacbell.net>, msanchez@pacbell.net (Marisol Sánchez) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Raj Watanabe | rwatanabe@netcom.com PGP Key fingerprint: ECDE F120 1A34 3996 "Keep the channels open."