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Manipulating Vocals Using Arduino

Manipulating Vocals Using Arduino

By Michael Colombo

Michael Colombo

In addition to being an online editor for MAKE Magazine, Michael Colombo works in fabrication, electronics, sound design, music production and performance (Yes. All that.) In the past he has also been a childrens' educator and entertainer, and holds a Masters degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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Amanda Ghassaei made a vocal effects box that digitizes the human voice using the granular synthesis function on Arduino.

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Singing Speech Synthesizer With Theremin-Like Controls

Singing Speech Synthesizer With Theremin-Like Controls

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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The embedded video is a collection of soundbytes that give a good general background of the Glove-TalkII system from Sidney S. Fels and Geoffrey E. Hinton.at The University of British Columbia. But the brief samples of the system in operation that it includes are, frankly, not a great advertisement for its capabilities or its potential. […]

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Speech synthesis in the year 1939

Speech synthesis in the year 1939

Collin Cunningham

By Collin Cunningham

Collin Cunningham

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Featured at the 1939 World’s Fair, the Voder (Voice Operating DEmonstratoR) from Bell Laboratories created vocal sounds via dedicated noise and tone generating vacuum tubes. These sounds were formed into words by the hand of a specially trained operator seated at the Voder’s interface. In aninterview with CMJ, electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos explains in […]

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