Ignotus

I've been catching up on MaxMSP messages (_really catching up). If you

are still pursuing vowel synthesis, I have a patch that might be of

interest, a kind of "vocal synth" that imposes formants on arbitrary

sounds. It includes MIDI control, vibrato, dipthongs and a rough

approximation of some consonantal effects (though I still have to add

filtered noise in specific bands to really get the sounds I want). It

is not, I suspect, particularly useful for real voice synthesis--I

always intended it to a an instrument that could sound like a

voice--but is it a pretty complete patch.

BTW, I used formants documented in Music, Cognition and Computerized

Sound, Perry R. Cook, ed., MIT Press 1999. Three bands of resonant

filters are probably sufficient for spoken voice vowel sounds. Singing

voice adds at least one more band, according to the literature I've

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I've been catching up on MaxMSP messages (_really catching up). If you
are still pursuing vowel synthesis, I have a patch that might be of
interest, a kind of "vocal synth" that imposes formants on arbitrary
sounds. It includes MIDI control, vibrato, dipthongs and a rough
approximation of some consonantal effects (though I still have to add
filtered noise in specific bands to really get the sounds I want). It
is not, I suspect, particularly useful for real voice synthesis--I
always intended it to a an instrument that could sound like a
voice--but is it a pretty complete patch.

BTW, I used formants documented in Music, Cognition and Computerized
Sound, Perry R. Cook, ed., MIT Press 1999. Three bands of resonant
filters are probably sufficient for spoken voice vowel sounds. Singing
voice adds at least one more band, according to the literature I've
read.

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re-vowel-synthesis

I am really interested in this patch, could you please tell me where I can get the patch you made.

Re: Vowel Synthesis