I learned to throat sing to put my baby to sleep. I'm having fun trying to figure out what all the shapes of the different mouth/throat components I make to get the same sound in the synth.
That was very intriguing, I was able to tune the false vocal folds and adopt the proper anatomical positions and it did output a proper Khoomei overtone. I wasn't able to find the Kargyraa range, but I managed a decent Sygyt.
There are a bunch of fun examples on Twitter of things people are doing with Chimera:
https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2118733265372860826
https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119372853502177323
https://x.com/CupOJoseph/status/2119260104641900595
https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2119085825509954042
https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119319095275671582
I could see this being very useful in a number of applications.
Being trans, of course voice affirmation training.
Then singing comes to mind, followed by language learning.
A solid visual demo like this would help give people more than "okay now more like the a in aunt"
I pronounce it aunt but a lot of people pronounce it aunt.
Huh, that wouldn't have occured to me. Thanks for a new perspective!
Why the fuck is this being downvoted? Am I not allowed to mention ways that a thing could be useful?
You are.
I guess this is like a modern version of pink trombone - https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
Also is the name a Teto reference?
Yes, this reminds me exactly of pink trombone. Thanks for posting the link, I'll re-add it to my bookmarks.
which is itself a version of research going back nearly 100 years.
e.g. the "Voder" by Homer Dudley - Bell Labs, 1939:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo
There was a post to a tweet about this but I also found there's a GitHub repo for the software and this link to it running!
Earlier tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410728
GitHub repo: https://github.com/jamesondh/chimera-vocal-synth
I learned to throat sing to put my baby to sleep. I'm having fun trying to figure out what all the shapes of the different mouth/throat components I make to get the same sound in the synth.
That was very intriguing, I was able to tune the false vocal folds and adopt the proper anatomical positions and it did output a proper Khoomei overtone. I wasn't able to find the Kargyraa range, but I managed a decent Sygyt.
Damned impressive setup.
This is weird and fun. Brings me back to one undergraduate class where we used the IPA a lot
Is it not supposed to work on phone? All I hear is noise and engine keeps loading beyond 100%
It works on iOS for me
My work is done for the day. https://bsky.app/profile/stewleach.bsky.social/post/3mzts6gg...
Next step: reverse engineer Freddie Mercury's glottal physiology from queen tracks and fourier analysis, pass it around as a VST plugin.
Please and thank you.
I wonder if the Freddie Mercury License ("Do whatever you want with my music, just don't make it boring") meets the OSI Open Source Definition
Will make a great vocoder, once a mic is connected to it.
The vocal folds though? Lol
Can't whistle?
The eye blink concerns me ...
I love how creepy 3D view is.
Thanks, I hate it haha.