From bvasiliev@netcom.com Tue Jun 27 18:06:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!bvasiliev From: bvasiliev@netcom.com (Bastien Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun27.180643.9199@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 18:06:43 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. 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? -- Bastien Vasiliev Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From cgirard@uu.net Wed Jun 28 12:08:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uu!cgirard From: cgirard@uu.net (Camila Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun28.120843.1577@uu.net> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 12:08:43 GMT References: <1995Jun27.180643.9199@netcom.com> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun27.180643.9199@netcom.com>, bvasiliev@netcom.com (Bastien Vasiliev) 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. -- === Camila Girard === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "We don't sign stars. We build them." From mtakahashi@pacbell.net Thu Jun 29 15:52:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@pacbell.net (Mathieu Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun29.155243.2086@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 15:52:43 GMT References: <1995Jun27.180643.9199@netcom.com> <1995Jun28.120843.1577@uu.net> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun28.120843.1577@uu.net>, cgirard@uu.net (Camila Girard) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Mathieu Takahashi "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Acorn RiscPC 600 / Linux 1.2.13