Re: [LAU] Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)] - Linux-audio-user

5 Sep 2012

On Mon, September 3, 2012 12:44 pm, SxDx wrote:
...
   From:
"Lorenzo Sutton" &lt;lorenzofsutton(a)gmail.com&gt; 
  >>>> From: "Ralf Mardorf"
&lt;ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net&gt;
 >>>> The East West Choirs sing your lyrics. It's not another Ahhhh or
 >>>> Ohhhh
 >>>> sample ;).
 >>>>
 >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI5Gg2-mhmU 
  I think you only need the resources/time/skill to
sample all the
 phonemes for various choir combinations, add glue and logic, the
 interface, some usual ADSR stuff and filtering, reverb here and there, a
 pinch of randomness, and your done :)

 Another way could be to have 4 singers sing the lines various times
 recording them multi-trak, each take with different miking positions and
 EQing (or keeping the mike still in the room and having them move around
 each time). If the singers were good enough they'd be able to change
 their voice quality slightly at each take to mimic multiple people. Of
 course you need 4 singers if you wanted a full SATB choir, probably just
 a good baritone and dark soprano would suffice to have a mixed choir
 effect for a monophonic or 2-voice line. 
 Maybe that's how they do it in the video. I gave a try to mbrola and the
 result is much more realistic than espeak. Mbrola uses recorded
 phonemes (if I understand correctly). 
Yes, and that is the same technique the vocaloid uses too.

There has been a lot of funding and research undertaken by Inria and at
one point they even got a song onto the charts ;-)

Festival also has a singing mode and it can use espeak or mbrola.

I'm sure in a couple of years there will be a large database of singers
for the lauloid project. If we took it a step further lauloid could be
integrated with linuxsampler too.

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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd