From jmoreno@earthlink.net Tue Jun 13 09:06:31 1995
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From: jmoreno@earthlink.net (Julien Moreno)
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Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.
Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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From bschneider@titech.ac.jp Wed Jun 14 10:30:31 1995
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From: bschneider@titech.ac.jp (Bill Schneider)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Jun13.090631.6116@earthlink.net>, jmoreno@earthlink.net (Julien Moreno) writes:
> 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.

The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code.

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