From msato@delphi.com Tue Sep 05 23:15:39 1995
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From: msato@delphi.com (Morag Sato)
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Subject: WTB/WTT: 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?

In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.
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 dlaurent@cern.ch Wed Sep 06 07:04:39 1995
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From: dlaurent@cern.ch (Diego Laurent)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Sep05.231539.5139@delphi.com>, msato@delphi.com (Morag Sato) 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.

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