Tried to extract my own glottal pulse to make the synth sound more human.
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@Tamasg @BorrisInABox Or it's like what softvoice did, all the different sources. Wait a minute! Is that the problem you're having with a female source? Do you need a real female glottal pulse to start from?
@x0 @BorrisInABox sadly female I realized would require Formant frequency tuning for the phonemes. Right now if we just put a female glottal shape over that, at best it would just sound aliased on top of the deeper, male-characteristic voice. theoretically... a female voice with a sharper glottal closure would actually give us MORE harmonics to work with, not fewer! Would be genuinely interesting to compare though - extract a female glottal pulse and see if the shape is meaningfully different.
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@mcourcel lol sounds horrible!
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@Tamasg Hehehehehe lolol, sort of like E-Speak.
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@mcourcel yep. This gave me some real good insight into what Espeak did to fuck up SpeechPlayer, mainly changing its glottal source a lot. Hahahaha good lesson-learning!
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@BorrisInABox @Tamasg I got A.Liv on the Surge discord to kindly work with my source material and the results are now called Exocat's Metalodon in the 3rd-party wavetables folder of Surge's factory data.
@BorrisInABox @Tamasg This is the raw source material, which I later trimmed and did some noise reduction on, and then A.Liv carefully turned it into something that was a consistent period to be turned into wavetables, I think at 2048 samples per frame.
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@BorrisInABox @Tamasg This is the raw source material, which I later trimmed and did some noise reduction on, and then A.Liv carefully turned it into something that was a consistent period to be turned into wavetables, I think at 2048 samples per frame.
@BorrisInABox @Tamasg SO if you actually wanted to do that for whatever reason, I can send you the wavetables which are already fixed length single-cycle waveforms, unless you already have surge.
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@BorrisInABox @Tamasg This is the raw source material, which I later trimmed and did some noise reduction on, and then A.Liv carefully turned it into something that was a consistent period to be turned into wavetables, I think at 2048 samples per frame.
@x0 @BorrisInABox @Tamasg Hehehe lololol! The spin sounds cool. Like a light saber.
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@BorrisInABox @Tamasg SO if you actually wanted to do that for whatever reason, I can send you the wavetables which are already fixed length single-cycle waveforms, unless you already have surge.
@x0 @BorrisInABox lol! Can't even explain what it did, but it definitely introduces a metallic quality unlike any I've heard in speech synthesis before. Not even as tube-like as when I tried mine was, but boy is it bad. That grindyness really shows through.
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@x0 @BorrisInABox lol! Can't even explain what it did, but it definitely introduces a metallic quality unlike any I've heard in speech synthesis before. Not even as tube-like as when I tried mine was, but boy is it bad. That grindyness really shows through.
@Tamasg @BorrisInABox lmfaoooooo what, that's like the odd source of softvoice
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@Tamasg @BorrisInABox lmfaoooooo what, that's like the odd source of softvoice
@x0 @BorrisInABox lol this thing is a trip to use. It's, just... So gritty, so metallic, nothin' quite like it. So I'm keeping it at https://eurpod.com/synths/speechPlayer-brokenmachine.dll - though clear proof that with the right matching glottal source it can sound less tubey and more natural, just gotta find the right radio announcer-type glottal source
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@BorrisInABox Oh cool! For the extraction I recorded 5 sounds:
"ahh" sustained at normal pitch (~5 sec)
2. "ahh" sustained at low pitch (~5 sec)
3. "ahh" sustained at high pitch (~5 sec)
4. "shhh" sustained fricative (~5 sec)
5. "th" sustained unvoiced (~3 sec)
The "ahh" vowels are for glottal pulse extraction at different F0s. The "sh" and "th" are for noise/frication characteristics.
Recording tips:
• Condenser or dynamic mic (I used a Blue Snowball, AT2005 was too noisy)
• Peaks around -5 to -8 dB (NOT quiet - my first attempt at -30 dB was useless)
• Steady volume, no vibrato
• Quiet room
• 44100 Hz, mono
The key is getting a clean, loud, boring sustained vowel - no expression, just pure steady tone. The more monotone the better for extraction!@BorrisInABox Small add-on for the voice recording set: raw audio only, please — no noise suppression, auto gain, compressor/limiter, or EQ. The boring part matters here: keep the vowel steady with no vibrato, because I’m aligning and averaging glottal cycles and pitch wobble makes the final source less crisp. If you can, include ~10 seconds of room tone (silence) in a file, so I can calibrate noise and hum. And when you record “th”, make it the “think” version (/θ/). Optional but very helpful: a sustained “zzzz” (/z/) and “vvvv” (/v/) so I can capture voicing + turbulence together for better “edge” control later. Hope this helps too. LOL if this works out your voice would be forever partially captured into a synth. LOL.
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@BorrisInABox Small add-on for the voice recording set: raw audio only, please — no noise suppression, auto gain, compressor/limiter, or EQ. The boring part matters here: keep the vowel steady with no vibrato, because I’m aligning and averaging glottal cycles and pitch wobble makes the final source less crisp. If you can, include ~10 seconds of room tone (silence) in a file, so I can calibrate noise and hum. And when you record “th”, make it the “think” version (/θ/). Optional but very helpful: a sustained “zzzz” (/z/) and “vvvv” (/v/) so I can capture voicing + turbulence together for better “edge” control later. Hope this helps too. LOL if this works out your voice would be forever partially captured into a synth. LOL.
@Tamasg @BorrisInABox Ooo, a Boris voice synth coming soon!
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@Tamasg @BorrisInABox Ooo, a Boris voice synth coming soon!
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@BorrisInABox @Tamasg This is the raw source material, which I later trimmed and did some noise reduction on, and then A.Liv carefully turned it into something that was a consistent period to be turned into wavetables, I think at 2048 samples per frame.
@x0 LMAO you've got a dubstep washer! @BorrisInABox @Tamasg
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@x0 LMAO you've got a dubstep washer! @BorrisInABox @Tamasg
@Scott @BorrisInABox @Tamasg Yup, as soon as I heard that I thought of some Skrillex shit and had to get it put into a synth. It was recorded in 2019, and in 2022 it finally happened. This is the demo that A.Liv made with it, everything except the supersaw and drums are the resulting tables.
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@Scott @BorrisInABox @Tamasg Yup, as soon as I heard that I thought of some Skrillex shit and had to get it put into a synth. It was recorded in 2019, and in 2022 it finally happened. This is the demo that A.Liv made with it, everything except the supersaw and drums are the resulting tables.
@x0 @Scott @BorrisInABox ah no way that's really cool! You can totally hear the samples in there
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@x0 @Scott @BorrisInABox ah no way that's really cool! You can totally hear the samples in there
@Tamasg @Scott @BorrisInABox Now feed that into a vocoder and have this gigantic radio voice going "search and destroy" and then a killer dubstep drop, it would be perfect.
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@BorrisInABox Small add-on for the voice recording set: raw audio only, please — no noise suppression, auto gain, compressor/limiter, or EQ. The boring part matters here: keep the vowel steady with no vibrato, because I’m aligning and averaging glottal cycles and pitch wobble makes the final source less crisp. If you can, include ~10 seconds of room tone (silence) in a file, so I can calibrate noise and hum. And when you record “th”, make it the “think” version (/θ/). Optional but very helpful: a sustained “zzzz” (/z/) and “vvvv” (/v/) so I can capture voicing + turbulence together for better “edge” control later. Hope this helps too. LOL if this works out your voice would be forever partially captured into a synth. LOL.
