From mkowalski@cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 09 19:20:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cam!mkowalski From: mkowalski@cam.ac.uk (Mateo Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan09.192022.2156@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 19:20:22 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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? -- Mateo Kowalski US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From nnilsson@earthlink.net Wed Jan 11 09:26:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!earthlink!nnilsson From: nnilsson@earthlink.net (Natalia Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan11.092622.4021@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 09:26:22 GMT References: <1995Jan09.192022.2156@cam.ac.uk> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan09.192022.2156@cam.ac.uk>, mkowalski@cam.ac.uk (Mateo Kowalski) 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Natalia Nilsson -- EarthLink Network "Marcus is not one man." From lhernandez@inria.fr Thu Jan 12 05:45:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!lhernandez From: lhernandez@inria.fr (Lucia Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan12.054522.1029@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 05:45:22 GMT References: <1995Jan09.192022.2156@cam.ac.uk> <1995Jan11.092622.4021@earthlink.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan11.092622.4021@earthlink.net>, nnilsson@earthlink.net (Natalia Nilsson) 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. 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Lucia Hernández === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From ltanaka@purdue.edu Thu Jan 12 20:07:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!purdue!ltanaka From: ltanaka@purdue.edu (Lucia Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan12.200722.3471@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:07:22 GMT References: <1995Jan09.192022.2156@cam.ac.uk> <1995Jan11.092622.4021@earthlink.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Jan11.092622.4021@earthlink.net>, nnilsson@earthlink.net (Natalia Nilsson) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Lucia Tanaka Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.