Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/03/19/pink-trombone-is-an-online-voi.html
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My Klatt is off to you, sir!
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And here I thought it was going to be something unsavory.
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You play the “Pink Trombone” by moving your tongue and soft pallet?
LOL…is this the fellatio version of Lickster that new cunnilingus app?
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It is unsavory. The pink ones are sweet. Bubblegum flavor.
the rusty ones are savory. Caramelization.
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Brown Tuba ain’t too shabby niether.
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Is this not built into your elf ear phones?
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Would be funny to record a bunch and then make an animation using the results as character voices in some sort of short narrative.
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I need to find some way to write a script that maps the parameters to standard midi note values/mod/pitch sends.
I almost got it to say “Hey You”, but it sounds like a bad Jeremy Louis impersonation done by a robot that’s had a concussion.
So awesome.
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Ohhhhhh YEAaaaahhhhhh
https://twitter.com/zacharyjohnson/status/843599766516891648
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It doesn’t work quite so well when you have a mouse instead of a touchscreen, but it’s still entertaining.
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Reminds me of when I tried making an alphabet based on mouth shapes expressed for each letter.
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You’re thinking of purple oboe.
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I’m totally shocked about how well you can model the human vocal apparatus in less than 2000 lines of code.
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Can anyone figure out how to do throat singing with this? Like, get some overtones going…
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I’ve been at this for hours and my wife completely fails to demonstrate any sense of awe. Maybe I’m doing it wrong…
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It doesn’t seem to include the subvocal folds in the model. Which is what you buzz when throat singing.
I figured out how to use my subvocal folds voluntarily. It’s added a lot of gravitas to my groans and huffy protestations at work.
I also use it when saying “uh”. To catch people off guard. They don’t expect me to sound like Johnny Cash when I’m straining for an answer.
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Above: 1967, AT&T Labs
I can’t find a video that explained why many of the common text-to-speech voices of the 80s had a slight Scottish accent. Supposedly it was because the engineer who created it was Scottish. There was a great video that showed software mimicking the parts needed to make vocal sounds on a monochrome crt. The software allowed for granular manipulation of the voice, but also had single keys to quickly change how the digital voice box sounded. I think I even remember a display at the Museum of Science and Industry that showed speech synthesis through crude digital modeling.
Below: 1939- Voder (Short and worth watching to see early speech synthesis)
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Holy crap, if that VODER video is real, mark me down as seriously impressed.
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Totally real. The history behind the Voder is super interesting.
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