> I wish the sounds were dynamically computerized by way of mechanical simulations of the anatomical parts involved in human speech articulation. Actually, I t

> I wish the sounds were dynamically computerized by way of mechanical simulations of the anatomical parts involved in human speech articulation. Actually, I think that's what was attempted in the first place in the early 80's. I remember seeing TV shows and museum exhibits that demonstrated this approach. One I especially remember, and highly dates the efforts, had a vector imaging display (think of the original Tempest and Asteroids arcade games) project a silhouette of a tongue and vocal cavity to demonstrate how the current phoneme was generated to listeners. Of course, back then, such simulacra were limited by lack of parallel processing power and inadequate understanding of biophysics. This lead to the brute force "sound sampling" approach nowadays as memory became more cheap and audio capture hardware was perfected. I do wonder if it's time to return to vocal anatomy modeling again, now that we have a better understanding of how to perform biometric and physics modeling via massive computational parallelism.