On Mon, September 3, 2012 12:44 pm, SxDx wrote: >> From: "Lorenzo Sutton" <lorenzofsutton@xxxxxxxxx> > >> >>>> From: "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >>>> 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. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
