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Pink Trombone: Speech Synthesis Simulation in JavaScript
- stevebmark 9y agoDrag over the circle, and while still dragging, move your mouse over the square. Now you can control both at once.
- sbuttgereit 9y agoOh dear....
- logicallee 9y agoSuper cool. Is there a gender button somewhere? sounds very male to me but there's no difference in voice/sound production between genders other than just the exact pitch, right? Can you get it to make sounds like a woman or only a man?
- microcolonel 9y agoThe length of the canal would be different, wouldn't it?
- Sunset 9y agoVocal cord thickness too.
- linkregister 9y agoCan't you just turn the pitch all the way up?
- DonHopkins 9y agoOr way down to synthesize vocal fry! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
- paperpunk 9y agoThere is (typically) a difference other than pitch. Formants will be in slightly different locations [1]; the energy in the spectrum is balanced differently; there is more aspiration noise [2]. You can model the latter somewhat with this tool by moving the voice source box down. I've been creating a speech synthesiser recently and it does seem like simple approaches produce a voice that is more passably 'male' than 'female', even accounting for the pitch. Aspiration added with white noise sounds better but doesn't quite get that breathy quality across. I think more sophisticated techniques may be needed. [1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220531604_Phonetic_differences_between_male_and_female_speech https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220531604_Phonetic_... [2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8653179 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8653179
- logicallee 9y agoThank you! Super interesting and a lot of info...
- lai 9y agoThis is hilarious and very good. How do I make it say a word though? Is it possible?
- gfody 9y agoI can get it to say "yeeeeaaaahhhh"
- skykooler 9y agoI figured out "mama" pretty quickly (click in the front of the nasal cavity). Also, I figured out why it's such an easy word for babies to learn.
- Asraelite 9y agoYou can make most pulmonic voiced consonants, except laterals, trills, dentals, and retroflexes, so /m n ɲ ŋ ɴ b d ɟ g ɢ ʡ ʔ ɣ z ʒ ʑ β ʋ ɹ j ɰ ʁ ʕ ɦ ⱱ ɾ/ are all possible, as well as all vowels. If you're really quick with your mouse you can then make pretty decent sounding words using any of these sounds. Some relatively easy ones I managed to do are "man", "no", "guy", "me", and "why". Some require co-articulation and diphthongs. For example, "why" requires putting the tongue to the top left, /ɯ/, rounding the lips, making it /u/, then quickly releasing the lips and moving the tongue to the bottom/bottom-right, /a/, then sliding it to the top right, /i/, so that you end up with /uai/ which is pretty close to the correct English /waɪ/.
- ryanmarsh 9y agoIsn't a pink trombone...
- midgetjones 9y agoA pink oboe is a thing. So is a rusty trombone. Your disgusting brain has somehow combined the two.
- qbrass 9y agohttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pink+trombone http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pink+trombone Since 2005
- gpetukhov 9y agoWhat a great time to start learning linguistics and phonetics!
- brunoluiz 9y agoIt should be scriptable... It would be a whole other level
- BinaryBullet 9y agoI had always wanted to do a webaudio port of: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html but never got around to it. This is great!
- makmanalp 9y agoAll this needs is keyboard controls, and then it'll be a great substitute for QWOP.
- djmips 9y agooh you mean like the voder! ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo The lady playing Auld Lang Syne would probably be an excellent QWOP player.
- andai 9y agoI've had the Voder's version of Daisy Bell stuck in my head for years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
- undershirt 9y agoWould this be a good way to learn a language? Seems like a good way to show how to pronounce consonants/vowels that we may have trouble discerning from similar sounds. for example, I would love to be able to refer to this when watching Erik Singer describe accents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDvESEXcgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvDvESEXcgE
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoAmazing, but do they know that pink trombone is a euphemism for the penis (when performing fellatio)?
- rwinn 9y agoIsn't everything?
- rikkus 9y agoThat's oboe. You might be thinking of brown?
- test1235 9y agobrown trombone? is that a thing?
- DonHopkins 9y agoI want a brown trombone that synthesizes farts. ;) Also you should be able to synthesize a raspberry by dragging the tongue out between the lips.
- rublev 9y agoTo be fair, everything, including the visual length of your comment can be a phallic euphemism. (Look, your 'comment' even has a tip!)
- nsxwolf 9y ago"Miss Simpson, do you find something funny about the word 'tromboner'?"
- z3t4 9y agoAll sounds sound Asian.
- whiddershins 9y agoWhen using multitouch interface and turning off "always voice" I was amazed at how expressive it is.
- TheNewAndy 9y agoI've done a C port of this code and hooked it up to my own midi controller. Much fun. Happy to share the code with anyone who wants it. Funnily enough, the port I did was so brainless that the last bit (the perlin noise part) was originally in C, then ported by HN's very own josephg. I didn't notice this, even though Joseph was a friend of mine at uni. Once I finished the port and went to making sure all the licensing stuff was fine I noticed this all.
- veli_joza 9y agoHow difficult would it be to wrap your code in VSTi plug-in and produce a DLL? This would make it easy to hook up to midi controller and other devices using any realtime VST-capable host.
- TheNewAndy 9y agoI would assume trivial. I'm a linux person, so I've just wrapped it in jack stuff - but this is what these plugin APIs are designed for.
- veli_joza 9y agoI prefer LV2 plugins as they integrate nicely into the rest of system. As I dabble in sound/music only rarely, Jack's all-or-nothing approach doesn't suit me at all. Also, it requires 5+ windows just to set everything up.
- undershirt 9y agogithub please!
- TheNewAndy 9y agohttp://www.ultra-premium.com/scratch/voc.zip http://www.ultra-premium.com/scratch/voc.zip
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- amelius 9y agoHow does it compute the frequency response of the various configurations? Is there an aerodynamics solver at the heart of this?
- blinry 9y agoThis very cool video demonstrates what you can do with it on a touchscreen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LGnozlwU1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LGnozlwU1o Also, if you like this kind of interactive thingies, you might enjoy the explorables subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/explorables/ https://www.reddit.com/r/explorables/
- cprecioso 9y agoThanks a lot for the subreddit!
- bshimmin 9y agoOh wow. The next time I've got a difficult conference call where all sense and reason has been lost, I know what I'm going to do. "Ben, do you think we can implement this feature successfully in time for the client demo?" "Ahhhuhhhuhhahhahuhuhuhhhuh!"
- 6stringmerc 9y agoLove the tie in with physical science / diagram. Not over the top trying to be sterile perfect, more a beautiful tool to deliver "conceptual" perspective. Interactions. So very very cool. As somebody else noted, wisely so, I'd love this as a free VST DLL. Could fit right in over at KVR Audio.
- olleromam91 9y agoI'll third this!
- Tokkemon 9y agoAs a trombonist, I'm thoroughly offended by the name. This is way too silly for serious trombonists!
- jasonjayr 9y agoIt would be neat if this took some kind of data input in sequence to manipulate the pieces. It would be neat to decode Speex or Codec 2 data as input into this to watch the animation ....
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- olleromam91 9y agoI had a lot of fun making deep throat blowjob noises...Thanks!
- olleromam91 9y agoI'm curious, what glottis wave-table are you using? Is it randomized at all?
- bgammon 9y agoI haven't examined how it works, but in the same vein: http://www.whalesynth.com/ http://www.whalesynth.com/