samoyed

I'm currently on a project that's working with expressive speech synthesis, and I'm having to do some stuff from first principles, currently experimenting with applying formants to different oscillators.

Does anyone know what the most convincing way of synthesising an (unfiltered) larynx sound in max? If anyone's got any experience of this in terms of speech or singing synthesis, It would be great to hear from you.

modelling-a-larynx

You might want to look at Perry Cook's work on SPASM (his

dissertation) -- it's somewhere on his princeton.cs home page. 

Also, we use a generic buzz waveform (all harmonics to nyquist at

full amp) for the raw larynx in our RTcmix LPC instrument.

Ok, I took 5 seconds and found Perry's page:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html

http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/RTcmix/docs/instruments/LPCPLAY.html

> I'm currently on a project that's working with expressive speech

> synthesis, and I'm having to do some stuff from first principles,

> currently experimenting with applying formants to different

> Does anyone know what the most convincing way of synthesising an

> (unfiltered) larynx sound in max? If anyone's got any experience

> of this in terms of speech or singing synthesis, It would be

You might want to look at Perry Cook's work on SPASM (his
dissertation) -- it's somewhere on his princeton.cs home page. 
Also, we use a generic buzz waveform (all harmonics to nyquist at
full amp) for the raw larynx in our RTcmix LPC instrument.

   http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html

  http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/RTcmix/docs/instruments/LPCPLAY.html

>
> Hi everyone
>
> I'm currently on a project that's working with expressive speech
> synthesis, and I'm having to do some stuff from first principles,
> currently experimenting with applying formants to different
> oscillators.
>
> Does anyone know what the most convincing way of synthesising an
> (unfiltered) larynx sound in max? If anyone's got any experience
> of this in terms of speech or singing synthesis, It would be
> great to hear from you.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Andrew
>

Quote: samoyed wrote on Mon, 05 March 2007 04:10

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> I'm currently on a project that's working with expressive speech synthesis, and I'm having to do some stuff from first principles, currently experimenting with applying formants to different oscillators.

> Does anyone know what the most convincing way of synthesising an (unfiltered) larynx sound in max? If anyone's got any experience of this in terms of speech or singing synthesis, It would be great to hear from you.

Have a look at the "singing-voice" example in the CNMAT Spectral Tutorials:

http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/MAX/downloads/

Quote: samoyed wrote on Mon, 05 March 2007 04:10
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> Hi everyone
>
> I'm currently on a project that's working with expressive speech synthesis, and I'm having to do some stuff from first principles, currently experimenting with applying formants to different oscillators.
>
> Does anyone know what the most convincing way of synthesising an (unfiltered) larynx sound in max? If anyone's got any experience of this in terms of speech or singing synthesis, It would be great to hear from you.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Andrew
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On Mar 5, 2007, at 4:10 AM, Andrew A. Cook wrote:

> I'm currently on a project that's working with expressive speech 

> synthesis, and I'm having to do some stuff from first principles, 

> currently experimenting with applying formants to different 

> Does anyone know what the most convincing way of synthesising an 

> (unfiltered) larynx sound in max? If anyone's got any experience of 

> this in terms of speech or singing synthesis, It would be great to 

Matt Gilbert has some patches on his site he uses with some custom 

> I'm currently on a project that's working with expressive speech  
> synthesis, and I'm having to do some stuff from first principles,  
> currently experimenting with applying formants to different  
> oscillators.
>
> Does anyone know what the most convincing way of synthesising an  
> (unfiltered) larynx sound in max? If anyone's got any experience of  
> this in terms of speech or singing synthesis, It would be great to  
> hear from you.

Matt Gilbert has some patches on his site he uses with some custom  
ululation hardware he made: http://www.mattgilbert.net/projects/ 
vowelSynth/

http://www.daevlmakr.com
http://www.2secondfuse.com

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