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Code's here if anyone wants to play: https://stackblitz.com/edit/ohgodwhathaveidone – I did a fairly medium job of abstracting the synthesis engine away from the UI, but it might be a decent starting point if you're looking to make other Trombone-based web silliness.
Man this brings back memories. We used this program for my linguistics homework in college. In 1996. Although I think it was an app then not a web page.
Referring to something from 1996 as an app and a modern web app as a page is a bizarre conflation of terminology.
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You can make it sound female by dragging the voicebox control to the right and down. It requires both higher pitch, and less power in the odd harmonics.
I agree it gets closer, but as is with much of speech synthesis, it still to me ends up sounding like "a male talking in a high-pitched voice" and not "a female". In addition, this would imply that only males can talk in a low register, which is patently false. Low register female voices are fairly common.
So they can make it sound more masculine but still high pitched
This would be useful to demonstrate the difference between p/f and l/r for those brought up without those distinctions. I'd also (as an English speaker) like to see/hear Dutch g and Xhosan clicks.
yes, I think it's time for this to be connected to text input for seeing how any word is pronounced. specifically: https://twitter.com/shaunlebron/status/989192507828432896
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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
I found it difficult to tell how well it's actually speaking because the announcer is priming the audience for every utterance. Very cool though!
Sudden sound warning.
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 enjoyed that, the developer, David Li has a lot of other great projects: http://david.li/
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
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Man, shoot. I compose a bit myself and am really into vocal harmony and I was hoping that he'd hard-coded some theory rules. I did notice that it seems to vary with the past 3 notes you've moved to. If you continue repeating the same pattern of jumps among the scale, you can replicate the chords the voices slide to.
> I compose a bit myself and am really into vocal harmony and I was hoping that he'd hard-coded some theory rules. Would you find this useful? Is this not already available somewhere? Sounds like a fun project!
Either way I agree, definitely a fun project.
Pondering what makes this sound "male".
I have actually used this very tool back in the day to help learn how to speak in a male or female voice. One of the five things I do is manipulation of my tongue to change the cavity of my mouth to make the space bigger (more masculine) or smaller (more feminine) which this tool demonstrates very well. Edit: to be clear I used to sound male 24/7 and now I sound female 24/7 Rather than thinking you are speaking male…