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Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by RandomGuyDTB »

mmjaa wrote: post #29
Digit-Al wrote: post #19

Is the author aware of the other meaning of "pink trombone"?[1] [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pink%20tromb...

I'm fairly sure there is no other meaning than the one to which you refer, so its perhaps more likely that you are missing the risqué point being made by assuming the prude levels are higher than you might think. A lot of the folks who make these kinds of hacks, are perfectly fine with the obscure, obscene, perverse nature of their naming of things ... Those of the anthropological inclination may decide that, in fact…

Like how in jargon.txt they used 69 as an example of a big number:

"69 adj. Large quantity. Usage: Exclusive to MIT-AI. "Go away, I have 69 things to do to DDT before worrying about fixing the bug in the phase of the moon output routine..." (Note: Actually, any number less than 100 but large enough to have no obvious magic properties will be recognized as a "large number". There is no denying that "69" is the local favorite. I don't know whether its origins are related to the obscene interpretation, but I do know that 69 decimal = 105 octal, and 69 hexadecimal = 105 decimal, which is a nice property. - GLS)"

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by peterlk »

modeless wrote: post #8

In a similar vein: http://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/choir/ The most interesting thing about this one is the chord progressions it generates.

If you're interested in chord generation, I've used Cthulu[0] by Xfer records to experiment with chord progressions quickly.

[0] https://xferrecords.com/products/cthulhu

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by dreamcompiler »

hannasanarion wrote: post #23
smlacy wrote: post #9

Would it be possible to use Reinforcement Learning + Speech Recognition to turn this thing into a real voice synthesizer?

No need. This thing is already a voice synthesizer. This is how modern synthesizers work, more or less: by generating a sine wave and then modifying it in the same way as the vocal tract does.

Not a sine wave. The vocal tract is subtractive; the larynx has to generate a waveform with lots of harmonics some of which the vocal tract can then remove.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by jdietrich »

modeless wrote: post #8

In a similar vein: http://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/choir/ The most interesting thing about this one is the chord progressions it generates.

In a historical vein, the absolutely magnificent Voder, from the late 1930s:

https://youtu.be/TsdOej_nC1M?t=16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voder

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by djsumdog »

tempestn wrote: post #37
porphyrogene wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Referring to something from 1996 as an app and a modern web app as a page is a bizarre conflation of terminology.

I'm guessing the thing from '96 was a Java applet, so indeed an app.

or a desktop/windows app. Back then we'd be more likely to call them programs.

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by sonnyblarney »

What someone needs to do is put sensors in people's mouths, record them saying known phrases, then stick the sensor data+phrases into some AI and see if we can't get that Trombone talkin'!

Re: Pink Trombone

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Post by willchang »

SamBam wrote: post #47
willchang wrote: post #4

This is amazing. I can get it to make almost any speech sound, but one I can't get is [s], because the model lacks teeth!

Were you able to get "m" and "n"?

Yes, just click in the nasal cavity above 'lip' and 'hard palate', respectively, to get [m] and [n].
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