February 21, 2004
Virtual voices.
The software is a "singing engine": type in lyrics and a melody and it carries out the complex mathematical operations needed to generate a voice singing the words to the right tune.
A number of demos are available here.
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I wrote about this at Plastic. Some more information there.
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This is such old news. We've had synthetic popstars for YEARS. But seriously, I think the ananova of pop is coming soon, especially since extensive processing and autotuning have gotten the popster's ear accustomed to synthy-sounding vocals. This is pretty amazing stuff. Cool post, dng.
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Your post at Plastic is much better than mine, Gyan. Everyone look at that instead.