HUMAN VOICE SYNTHESIZING

hi everybody! a friend of mine sent me this link to a software for synthesizing human voices, and the result in my opinion is quite extraordinary. i thinked i should share this with you! best regards!

http://www.virsyn.de/en/E_Products/E_CANTOR/e_cantor.html

Ugh, the first demo I listened to was absolutely terrible. Way too much vibrato.

The Halleluja is also terrible. Obviously synthesized. I'd rather work with static pitches and Microsoft Sam.

Actually, that Halleluja almost inspires me to write a Stephen Hawking concerto.

The demos on that site are priceless. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

(I'm sorry, it's just that some of them are absolutely fantastic in a hilarious way)

Pretty sorry demonstrations of technology if the company is wanting people to take them seriously.

This makes me want to spend money (thank you JG for this wonderful gift of a link):

I need your inspiration

:)

Must admit I've heard worse by far.

The choir canon sounded ok for what it is.

The Ave Regina sounded less synthesised than samples stretched beyond their usable point - the magnitude of the formants changes with pitch change and you cen get away with a small pitch-change (about a semitone either side of sampled pitch) then things sound weird.

Still, not unlike the early "electronic pianos" - risible by today's standards, someone had to make a start.

I won't laugh at it - I could laugh at masses of stuff here but I don't because people try. The first orchestral samples/syntheses were abhorrent - I mean strings? Wha-a-a-at? . .but...we moved on.

My doubts concern the functional value of trying to synthesise the human voice when there are 7 billion around the place. Capturing every nuance is a pipe-dream. The effort might be better spent developing a new, synthesised sound based on the human voice and tell people if they want to compose for real choirs, go join one. Easy-peasy.

Having said that, this seems the way of our technological era: clothe the naked simplicities of life in swathes of technological complexity.

Giselle, that's priceless. I heard better than that in the 80s. It's gratifying to know that professional singers aren't going to be replaced electronically anytime soon. That said...

My doubts concern the functional value of trying to synthesise the human voice when there are 7 billion around the place. Capturing every nuance is a pipe-dream. The effort might be better spent developing a new, synthesised sound based on the human voice and tell people if they want to compose for real choirs, go join one. Easy-peasy.

Having tried with almost no success to get the many choral directors I've worked with over the years to even give my works a reading, I've had it with the whole notion. My only other option would be to gather up some of my singer friends and do it myself. However, I could hardly ask them to take time out of their busy schedules without compensating them for it. Those days are long gone. Even college kids don't do anything for free anymore. I consider myself damned lucky to have a symphony up for performance by a local orchestra this month. All things considered, I'll put up with the technical inadequacies of synthesized instruments and voices. It's easier, and I'm tired of fighting.

Hmm... Interesting little program. To be honest, I'd rather just use a "Voice Aah" then put robotic voices in, but some people use this method, I guess..

The Halleluja is also terrible. Obviously synthesized. I'd rather work with static pitches and Microsoft Sam.

I don't see how you'd want to work with Microsoft Sam. Sam is the most retarded piece of scraggy. To be honest, this is one decent program. Synthesizers aren't suppose to be real. Not all computer generated sounds aim for realism. This one obviously tried, but reached it's limit.

I don't see how you'd want to work with Microsoft Sam. Sam is the most retarded piece of scraggy. To be honest, this is one decent program. Synthesizers aren't suppose to be real. Not all computer generated sounds aim for realism. This one obviously tried, but reached it's limit.

Looks like someone's too dense to spot a joke.

Looks like someone's too dense to spot a joke.

Oh my god, I am so laughing my donkey off. :mellow:

Oh my god, I am so laughing my donkey off. :mellow:

Hehe.

Assuming you're thinking the tables are turned, which you appear to be, I am the one to be laughing. If you had, and it looks to be that you did, take me seriously, then you are certainly in no possition to laugh. :D

Hehe.

Assuming you're thinking the tables are turned, which you appear to be, I am the one to be laughing. If you had, and it looks to be that you did, take me seriously, then you are certainly in no possition to laugh. :mellow:

Okay JohnGalt, why the "smartass" assumption? You missed my point, and you have obviously misjudged this program by saying it's terrible. Voice synths like these are perfect for electronica, techno, background support, and textures.

Oh my god, I am so laughing my donkey off. :mellow:

Oh dear. That's a sign that your belly-button fell off. Put a shake-proof washer on before you screw it in again.

:D

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I don't know if you guys have checked out the work of the boffins at Yamaha, but they've produced something similar called Vocaloid. There are three variations at the moment, Leon, Lola and Mirrim at the moment, and for what it is it's quite incredible. As far as I understand it it's based on real session vocalists who have painstakenly recorded all pheonyms and passing pheonym sounds so when you type in the program it matches the pheonyms like text to speech synths but with the added realism of thousands of pitch varied samples.

It's not perfect but it's very exciting to see in it's early stages and what it could hold for the future.

you want to hear a real vocal/choral program to use ? check this out. EastWest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Choirs :: World/Vocals :: Virtual Instruments :: Sounds Online Europe You may also want to check out some of their orchetral programs. Top notch, beats Garritan by a little bit too :)

I have the Symphonic Choirs; absolutely fantastic library

Yeah, it sounds amazing from the samples I've heard, I'll be picking it up within the next year or so, when I get the money >_>.