From khernandez@stanford.edu Sun Oct 06 16:25:37 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!khernandez From: khernandez@stanford.edu (Katrin Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct06.162537.9651@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:25:37 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Katrin Hernández Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From fsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Oct 06 20:25:37 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!fsmirnov From: fsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Fiona Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct06.202537.5969@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 20:25:37 GMT References: <1996Oct06.162537.9651@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct06.162537.9651@stanford.edu>, khernandez@stanford.edu (Katrin Hernández) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- === Fiona Smirnov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From lkang@rwth-aachen.de Tue Oct 08 22:16:37 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!rwth-aachen!lkang From: lkang@rwth-aachen.de (Lisa Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct08.221637.3020@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 22:16:37 GMT References: <1996Oct06.162537.9651@stanford.edu> <1996Oct06.202537.5969@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct06.202537.5969@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, fsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Fiona Smirnov) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Lisa Kang US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Hold for relay."