From oschneider@tum.de Tue Mar 22 06:21:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!tum!oschneider From: oschneider@tum.de (Olga Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar22.062125.4127@tum.de> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 06:21:25 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Olga Schneider Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From tito@demon.co.uk Tue Mar 22 09:26:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!tito From: tito@demon.co.uk (Thiago Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar22.092625.4433@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 09:26:25 GMT References: <1994Mar22.062125.4127@tum.de> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar22.062125.4127@tum.de>, oschneider@tum.de (Olga Schneider) 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. -- Thiago Ito Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From slaurent@cern.ch Thu Mar 24 11:35:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!slaurent From: slaurent@cern.ch (Sven Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar24.113525.4679@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 11:35:25 GMT References: <1994Mar22.062125.4127@tum.de> <1994Mar22.092625.4433@demon.co.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Mar22.092625.4433@demon.co.uk>, tito@demon.co.uk (Thiago Ito) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Sven Laurent -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."