From arodriguez@tum.de Sat Aug 05 09:56:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!tum!arodriguez From: arodriguez@tum.de (Anja Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug05.095611.8513@tum.de> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 09:56:11 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Anja Rodríguez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From sfischer@cern.ch Sun Aug 06 18:00:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!sfischer From: sfischer@cern.ch (Sven Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug06.180011.1119@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 18:00:11 GMT References: <1995Aug05.095611.8513@tum.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug05.095611.8513@tum.de>, arodriguez@tum.de (Anja Rodríguez) 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. -- Sven Fischer US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."