From dcampbell@titech.ac.jp Thu Jan 12 02:39:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!titech!dcampbell From: dcampbell@titech.ac.jp (Dmitri Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan12.023958.8955@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 02:39:58 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- === Dmitri Campbell === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From mmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de Fri Jan 13 00:57:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Mei MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan13.005758.2794@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 00:57:58 GMT References: <1995Jan12.023958.8955@titech.ac.jp> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan12.023958.8955@titech.ac.jp>, dcampbell@titech.ac.jp (Dmitri Campbell) 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. -- Mei MacDonald US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From yduarte@mit.edu Sun Jan 15 02:00:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!yduarte From: yduarte@mit.edu (Yuki Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan15.020058.4693@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 02:00:58 GMT References: <1995Jan12.023958.8955@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan12.023958.8955@titech.ac.jp>, dcampbell@titech.ac.jp (Dmitri Campbell) 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. -- Yuki Duarte | yduarte@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 514D 149C 6BF1 B9A4 "Keep the channels open." From jwatanabe@berkeley.edu Mon Jan 16 08:07:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!jwatanabe From: jwatanabe@berkeley.edu (Ji-woo Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan16.080758.1262@berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 08:07:58 GMT References: <1995Jan12.023958.8955@titech.ac.jp> <1995Jan13.005758.2794@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan13.005758.2794@rwth-aachen.de>, mmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Mei MacDonald) 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Ji-woo Watanabe Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Do not worship the copy."