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A new kind of volume control
- cmos 17y agoAt first I didn't get it. But then I tried it. And I like it! How cool would this option be for 'books on tape'.
- abstractbill 17y agoEven better if you could get it working automatically. I wonder if there's any existing work on using signal processing to turn audio of spoken words into a whisper or a shout?
- jared314 17y agoAn Auto-tune for emotion?
- mojuba 17y agoTheoretically, you'd need to separate the tonal part of the voice and the noise part. The tonal part goes up/down, let's say, one octave at a time and becomes louder or quieter. Pure whisper is essentially only the noise part. The separation routine should look into the spectrum: the tonal part must look like narrower bands, while the rest is noise. Tonal transformations may be more complex in reality than just multiplication, but the simplest transformation might work OK too.
- olliesaunders 17y agoVoice synthesis? Not exactly what you were asking for though.
- Luyt 17y agoPlease not ;-) I don't want my audiobooks shouting at me!
- jrockway 17y agoThen don't turn the volume up that high?
- techiferous 17y agoI'd love to have a Chris Farley shouting version of the Bible.
- bryanh 17y agoI'd hate to be the reader doing 5 different takes for the entire book, from whispering to shouting my lungs out for hours!
- endtime 17y agoKind of cute; nice HTML5 example. He says it only works in Firefox, but worked fine for me in Opera.
- jared314 17y agoYou could expand this to a choose-your-own-adventure for audio clips.
- BrandonM 17y agoLike 2-XL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-XL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-XL
- adriand 17y agoI need this for my two-year-old. Which setting is "inside voice"?
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- castis 17y agoIf you go from shout to whisper right at the last line, it becomes one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.
- dmoney 17y agoThis is similar to the velocity channel in digital music, which is how hard the note is struck (possibly changing the quality of the note), which can be separate from the volume.
- aw3c2 17y agoLooks like he posted a day too early for April's Fool. Nice joke anyways!
- ntoshev 17y agoReading the title I hoped someone finally built a car audio that auto-adjusts the volume depending on background noise.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoI've driven a hire car with that feature several years ago. I believe it was a Citroen Xsara Picasso.