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Super 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
by logicallee 10y ago
Super 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 10y agoThe length of the canal would be different, wouldn't it?
- Sunset 10y agoVocal cord thickness too.
- linkregister 10y agoCan't you just turn the pitch all the way up?
- DonHopkins 10y agoOr way down to synthesize vocal fry! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
- paperpunk 10y 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 10y agoThank you! Super interesting and a lot of info...