On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 21:55 +0000, Folderol wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:58:39 -0800 > Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:52:21PM +0100, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:41:35AM -0800, Ken Restivo wrote: > > > > > > > I'm absolutely stunned by the quality of the vocal work > > > > on Stephane's Rennaisance-styled choral peices, which are > > > > made entirely of phonemes generated on Linux-- no actual singers. > > > > So I'd guess if you partner with him, it'd be entirely possible > > > > to generate the whole choir in Linux. > > > > > > I only know one Stephane on LAU - the Jack2 one - are you > > > you referring to him ? Any pointers to his work ? > > > It would be great if we could do that *live* ... > > > > Stéphane Magnenat, > > > > http://stephane.magnenat.net/music.html > > > > I have no idea if that's the JACK2 dude, but his choral peices done in Linux are pretty impressive. > > > > -ken > > Just finally got around to checking this out. If you hadn't told me > these weren't real singers I'd never have guessed it :? Nowhere on the page does it say the voices were synthesized, and on the second piece it actually has a list of the names of the performers. The composer uses open-source software running on Linux to compose and score the piece, but not to perform it. It's a bit of a shame - a really good physical-modelling voice synth would be fun... Gordon MM0YEQ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
