From bweber@berkeley.edu Mon Jan 23 12:38:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!bweber From: bweber@berkeley.edu (Bastien Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan23.123822.8650@berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:38:22 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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? -- Bastien Weber | bweber@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 5B12 DEE8 9EBE CF28 "Keep the channels open." From fstewart@ox.ac.uk Tue Jan 24 21:50:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!fstewart From: fstewart@ox.ac.uk (Fiona Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan24.215022.6482@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:50:22 GMT References: <1995Jan23.123822.8650@berkeley.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan23.123822.8650@berkeley.edu>, bweber@berkeley.edu (Bastien Weber) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Fiona Stewart | fstewart@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 5337 1C9F 2C2B C513 "Keep the channels open." From tandersson@ox.ac.uk Thu Jan 26 22:42:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!tandersson From: tandersson@ox.ac.uk (Thiago Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan26.224222.7265@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 22:42:22 GMT References: <1995Jan23.123822.8650@berkeley.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan23.123822.8650@berkeley.edu>, bweber@berkeley.edu (Bastien Weber) writes: > 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. 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 Andersson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From kperez@titech.ac.jp Fri Jan 27 13:28:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!titech!kperez From: kperez@titech.ac.jp (Karen Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan27.132822.2717@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 13:28:22 GMT References: <1995Jan23.123822.8650@berkeley.edu> <1995Jan26.224222.7265@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan26.224222.7265@ox.ac.uk>, tandersson@ox.ac.uk (Thiago Andersson) 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Karen Pérez "They will send a copy in my place." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From moliveira@illinois.edu Sat Jan 28 21:26:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!moliveira From: moliveira@illinois.edu (Matthias Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan28.212622.1220@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 21:26:22 GMT References: <1995Jan23.123822.8650@berkeley.edu> <1995Jan26.224222.7265@ox.ac.uk> <1995Jan27.132822.2717@titech.ac.jp> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan27.132822.2717@titech.ac.jp>, kperez@titech.ac.jp (Karen Pérez) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Matthias Oliveira *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0