 | blinry on April 18, 2017 | next [–] This very cool video demonstrates what you can do with it on a touchscreen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LGnozlwU1o Also, if you like this kind of interactive thingies, you might enjoy the explorables subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/explorables/ |
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| cprecioso on April 18, 2017 | parent | next [–] Thanks a lot for the subreddit! |
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| undershirt on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] Would this be a good way to learn a language? Seems like a good way to show how to pronounce consonants/vowels that we may have trouble discerning from similar sounds. for example, I would love to be able to refer to this when watching Erik Singer describe accents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDvESEXcgE |
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| makmanalp on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] All this needs is keyboard controls, and then it'll be a great substitute for QWOP. |
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| djmips on April 18, 2017 | parent | next [–] oh you mean like the voder! ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo The lady playing Auld Lang Syne would probably be an excellent QWOP player. |
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| andai on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] I've had the Voder's version of Daisy Bell stuck in my head for years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk |
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| lai on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] This is hilarious and very good. How do I make it say a word though? Is it possible? |
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| Asraelite on April 18, 2017 | parent | next [–] You can make most pulmonic voiced consonants, except laterals, trills, dentals, and retroflexes, so /m n ɲ ŋ ɴ b d ɟ g ɢ ʡ ʔ ɣ z ʒ ʑ β ʋ ɹ j ɰ ʁ ʕ ɦ ⱱ ɾ/ are all possible, as well as all vowels. If you're really quick with your mouse you can then make pretty decent sounding words using any of these sounds. Some relatively easy ones I managed to do are "man", "no", "guy", "me", and "why". Some require co-articulation and diphthongs. For example, "why" requires putting the tongue to the top left, /ɯ/, rounding the lips, making it /u/, then quickly releasing the lips and moving the tongue to the bottom/bottom-right, /a/, then sliding it to the top right, /i/, so that you end up with /uai/ which is pretty close to the correct English /waɪ/. |
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| skykooler on April 18, 2017 | parent | prev | next [–] I figured out "mama" pretty quickly (click in the front of the nasal cavity). Also, I figured out why it's such an easy word for babies to learn. |
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| kranner on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] Not just babies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_zW6APE1qQ |
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| scatters on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | prev | next [–] Similarly, "papa": click on the upper "lip". |
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| gfody on April 18, 2017 | parent | prev | next [–] I can get it to say "yeeeeaaaahhhh" |
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| 6stringmerc on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] Love the tie in with physical science / diagram. Not over the top trying to be sterile perfect, more a beautiful tool to deliver "conceptual" perspective. Interactions. So very very cool. As somebody else noted, wisely so, I'd love this as a free VST DLL. Could fit right in over at KVR Audio. |
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| olleromam91 on April 18, 2017 | parent | next [–] I'll third this! |
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| bshimmin on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] Oh wow. The next time I've got a difficult conference call where all sense and reason has been lost, I know what I'm going to do. "Ben, do you think we can implement this feature successfully in time for the client demo?" "Ahhhuhhhuhhahhahuhuhuhhhuh!" |
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| TheNewAndy on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] I've done a C port of this code and hooked it up to my own midi controller. Much fun. Happy to share the code with anyone who wants it. Funnily enough, the port I did was so brainless that the last bit (the perlin noise part) was originally in C, then ported by HN's very own josephg. I didn't notice this, even though Joseph was a friend of mine at uni. Once I finished the port and went to making sure all the licensing stuff was fine I noticed this all. |
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| veli_joza on April 18, 2017 | parent | next [–] How difficult would it be to wrap your code in VSTi plug-in and produce a DLL? This would make it easy to hook up to midi controller and other devices using any realtime VST-capable host. |
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| TheNewAndy on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] I would assume trivial. I'm a linux person, so I've just wrapped it in jack stuff - but this is what these plugin APIs are designed for. |
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| veli_joza on April 19, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] I prefer LV2 plugins as they integrate nicely into the rest of system. As I dabble in sound/music only rarely, Jack's all-or-nothing approach doesn't suit me at all. Also, it requires 5+ windows just to set everything up. |
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| undershirt on April 18, 2017 | parent | prev | next [–] github please! |
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| TheNewAndy on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] http://www.ultra-premium.com/scratch/voc.zip |
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| undershirt on April 19, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] Hi, thanks! How did you get it running with your midi controller? |
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| brunoluiz on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] It should be scriptable... It would be a whole other level |
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| BinaryBullet on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] I had always wanted to do a webaudio port of: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html but never got around to it. This is great! |
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| pbhjpbhj on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] Amazing, but do they know that pink trombone is a euphemism for the penis (when performing fellatio)? |
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| rublev on April 18, 2017 | parent | next [–] To be fair, everything, including the visual length of your comment can be a phallic euphemism. (Look, your 'comment' even has a tip!) |
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| rwinn on April 18, 2017 | parent | prev | next [–] Isn't everything? |
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| rikkus on April 18, 2017 | parent | prev | next [–] That's oboe. You might be thinking of brown? |
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| DonHopkins on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] I want a brown trombone that synthesizes farts. ;) Also you should be able to synthesize a raspberry by dragging the tongue out between the lips. |
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| test1235 on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | prev | next [–] brown trombone? is that a thing? |
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| nsxwolf on April 18, 2017 | parent | prev | next [–] "Miss Simpson, do you find something funny about the word 'tromboner'?" |
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| gpetukhov on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] What a great time to start learning linguistics and phonetics! |
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| Tokkemon on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] As a trombonist, I'm thoroughly offended by the name. This is way too silly for serious trombonists! |
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| logicallee on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] Super cool. Is there a gender button somewhere? sounds very male to me but there's no difference in voice/sound production between genders other than just the exact pitch, right? Can you get it to make sounds like a woman or only a man? |
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| paperpunk on April 18, 2017 | parent | next [–] There is (typically) a difference other than pitch. Formants will be in slightly different locations [1]; the energy in the spectrum is balanced differently; there is more aspiration noise [2]. You can model the latter somewhat with this tool by moving the voice source box down. I've been creating a speech synthesiser recently and it does seem like simple approaches produce a voice that is more passably 'male' than 'female', even accounting for the pitch. Aspiration added with white noise sounds better but doesn't quite get that breathy quality across. I think more sophisticated techniques may be needed. [1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220531604_Phonetic_... [2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8653179 |
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| logicallee on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] Thank you! Super interesting and a lot of info... |
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| linkregister on April 18, 2017 | parent | prev | next [–] Can't you just turn the pitch all the way up? |
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| DonHopkins on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] Or way down to synthesize vocal fry! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register |
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| microcolonel on April 18, 2017 | parent | prev | next [–] The length of the canal would be different, wouldn't it? |
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| Sunset on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] Vocal cord thickness too. |
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| pr9v on April 19, 2017 | prev | next [–] I haven't examined how it works, but in the same vein: http://www.whalesynth.com/ |
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| amelius on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] How does it compute the frequency response of the various configurations? Is there an aerodynamics solver at the heart of this? |
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| whiddershins on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] When using multitouch interface and turning off "always voice" I was amazed at how expressive it is. |
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| stevebmark on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] Drag over the circle, and while still dragging, move your mouse over the square. Now you can control both at once. |
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| jasonjayr on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] It would be neat if this took some kind of data input in sequence to manipulate the pieces. It would be neat to decode Speex or Codec 2 data as input into this to watch the animation .... |
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| olleromam91 on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] I'm curious, what glottis wave-table are you using? Is it randomized at all? |
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| olleromam91 on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] I had a lot of fun making deep throat blowjob noises...Thanks! |
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| ryanmarsh on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] Isn't a pink trombone... |
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| midgetjones on April 18, 2017 | parent | next [–] A pink oboe is a thing. So is a rusty trombone. Your disgusting brain has somehow combined the two. |
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| qbrass on April 18, 2017 | root | parent | next [–] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pink+trombone Since 2005 |
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| z3t4 on April 18, 2017 | prev | next [–] All sounds sound Asian. |
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| sbuttgereit on April 18, 2017 | prev [–] Oh dear.... |
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