VowelSynth: Homemade Speech Synth - Gizmodo Comments

VowelSynth: Homemade Speech Synth

Joe Manning — Fri, 26 May 2006 01:00:51 EDT

its stupid and annoying!

VowelSynth: Homemade Speech Synth

Peter Kirn — Thu, 25 May 2006 22:23:03 EDT

Ain't no DSP chips around; I think you're imagining something. All the sound generation is done by the laptop. So saying it's a homemade synth really isn't accurate; it's actually a homemade controller. That's cool, though, because you could use these rubber bands to control whatever you want, if you happen not to like the vocal processing sound. If you want to make these kinds of sounds, check out vocoder technique. It's now over a half century old in concept. (But hey, the best ideas aren't always new.)

Peter Kirn

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chris_cant_pwn — Thu, 25 May 2006 20:21:57 EDT

Who speaks without using consonant sounds? I agree with rizzamus . On a side note... watching that hand writhe in the "controller" was one of the most unpleasant things I've seen all week. Thanks Giz.

chris_cant_pwn

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rizzamus — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:47:55 EDT

Turn those ey's and oh's into moans and you got yourself a product.

rizzamus

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Jason Chen — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:14:10 EDT

Sounds like someone's punishing a didgeridoo.

Jason Chen

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ninjamurf — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:33:26 EDT

Homemade syth, sure. But "speech"? WTF? I didn't hear anything "speechlike" in there. Just a bunch of weird sounds made with his fingers/hand/arm.

ninjamurf