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There's no way I'll find it but somewhere along the way there was a collection of samples in which one of these contemporary model-based speech synthesizers (po
by jcims 4y ago
There's no way I'll find it but somewhere along the way there was a collection of samples in which one of these contemporary model-based speech synthesizers (possibly wavenet or tacotron) was forced to output data with no useful text (can't remember if it was just noise or literally zero input). The synthesizer just started creating weird breathy pops and purrs and gibberish utterances. Some of them sounded like panic breathing and it was one of the more jarring things I've heard in quite some time.
This isn't exactly it but it's very close - https://www.deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-a-generative-model-for-raw-audio https://www.deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-a-generative-model-for... CTRL+F 'babbling'
- guerrilla 4y agoMost of those sounds hilariously close to Danish, probably because of the glottal stop :P
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- DonHopkins 4y agoSounds a lot like Simlish! Katy Perry - Last Friday Night in Simlish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxyW6AJ-yIk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxyW6AJ-yIk How the Language From the Sims Was Created: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsbeTV76YI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsbeTV76YI Simlish Voice Video (Gerri Lawlor and Stephen Kearin, inventors of Simlish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_E6026i9tA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_E6026i9tA Steve and Gerri improvising together in English while playing The Sims: https://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/sounds/Steve_And_Gerri.wav https://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/sounds/Steve_And_Gerri.w... Gerri Lawlor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerri_Lawlor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerri_Lawlor At the University of Maryland VAX Lab in the 80's, we had a DECTalk attached to the VAX over a serial line that we'd play around with, but I think the protocol must have used two byte tokens, because some times it would get one byte out of sync and start going "BLLEEGH YAAUGH RAWGH BRAGHK SPROP BLOP BLOP GUKGUK BWAUGHK GYAAUGHT BLOBBLE SPLOP BLAP BLAP BEAUGH GUWK SPLAPPLE PLAP SPLORPLE BLAPPLE"! (*) Just like it was channeling the Don Martin Sound Effects from random Mad Magazines. https://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html https://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html (*) Bulemia Meeting Attendees Vomiting, MAD #266 1987, Page 45, On Thursday Evening on West 12th Street.