Chimera Vocal Synth

295 points - yesterday at 10:36 PM

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odo1242 today at 9:36 AM
There does seem to be a bug - if you drag the tongue to the bottom left-most position, close the lips and bring them back as far as possible, raise the larynx all the way, and lower the soft palate all the way, the synthesizer starts making some kind of inhuman screeching sound (which is definitely not physically accurate).

My best guess for why is that the simulation parameters are set up slightly wrong in a way that is mostly fine for normal simulations (not an audible amount of distortion) but quickly goes off the rails on weird cases like the aforementioned.

Overall a really nice app though; honestly I was kinda blown away by it.

starshadowx2 yesterday at 11:27 PM
I guess this is like a modern version of pink trombone - https://dood.al/pinktrombone/

Also is the name a Teto reference?

goodmythical yesterday at 11:21 PM
I could see this being very useful in a number of applications.

Being trans, of course voice affirmation training.

Then singing comes to mind, followed by language learning.

A solid visual demo like this would help give people more than "okay now more like the a in aunt"

runnr_az today at 2:24 PM
This reminds me of that time researchers recreated the voice of the Pharaoh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8qhrURrQbI
nmstoker yesterday at 10:37 PM
There was a post to a tweet about this but I also found there's a GitHub repo for the software and this link to it running!

Earlier tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410728

GitHub repo: https://github.com/jamesondh/chimera-vocal-synth

rc1 today at 2:54 PM
Scrolling is an issue on iOS. Where my finger lands to scroll the page is captured by the head view. Took me a while to figure out how to get passed it.
hankbond today at 1:30 AM
I learned to throat sing to put my baby to sleep. I'm having fun trying to figure out what all the shapes of the different mouth/throat components I make to get the same sound in the synth.
hmokiguess today at 12:28 PM
This is the kind of experience I want on a Monday morning
vektormemory today at 10:14 AM
I can't work out how Klaus did the Mr. Sandman version.

Is that a modded version with 4 quartet singers at once?

EA-3167 today at 12:08 AM
That was very intriguing, I was able to tune the false vocal folds and adopt the proper anatomical positions and it did output a proper Khoomei overtone. I wasn't able to find the Kargyraa range, but I managed a decent Sygyt.

Damned impressive setup.

thirtygeo today at 12:28 AM
This is weird and fun. Brings me back to one undergraduate class where we used the IPA a lot
chaosprint today at 1:01 PM
love the op-1 vibe ui
hi_hi today at 1:47 AM
nxobject today at 8:16 AM
Time to figure out that damn Australian "o" by flapping the tongue about...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zHeGKQxoOEg

gnarlouse today at 3:29 AM
Next step: reverse engineer Freddie Mercury's glottal physiology from queen tracks and fourier analysis, pass it around as a VST plugin.

Please and thank you.

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minimaxa today at 3:40 AM
Will make a great vocoder, once a mic is connected to it.

The vocal folds though? Lol

smusamashah yesterday at 11:11 PM
Is it not supposed to work on phone? All I hear is noise and engine keeps loading beyond 100%
Affric today at 3:50 AM
Can't whistle?
jagged-chisel yesterday at 11:14 PM
The eye blink concerns me ...
hax0ron3 today at 7:57 AM
Can it do throat singing?
hsuduebc2 today at 2:27 AM
I love how creepy 3D view is.
Daunk today at 2:27 AM
Thanks, I hate it haha.
martialwave8 today at 7:10 AM
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