Private By Design: Free and Private Voice Assistants
Command your own voice assistant without the Big Tech eavesdroppers and data snoops, using free and private tools
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Manipulating Vocals Using Arduino
Amanda Ghassaei made a vocal effects box that digitizes the human voice using the granular synthesis function on Arduino.
Singing Speech Synthesizer With Theremin-Like Controls
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. […]
Speech synthesis in the year 1939
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 […]
Pete Drake’s talking guitar
Musician/producer Pete Drake performs his song “Forever” with his steel guitar through a classic talkbox. A surreal and beautiful performance – the talkbox in use here is cool in and of itself! The freestanding design with handle is inspiring and simple talkboxes are pretty easy to make. [via Boing Boing] More: HOW TO – build […]
Spooky (and free) audio effects
CDM points out this free Halloween themed effect for VST/AU compatible audio software. You can download the plugin from Solid State Logic’s site (free reg required). Nice to see the neighbors aren’t the only ones giving out free treats. It’s basically a pitch-shift + vibrato + wind noise + eco/reverb combo … which means it’s […]
HOW TO – build a talk box
For those unfamiliar – a talk box device allows the user to modulate an instrument’s waveform by changing the shape of their own mouth (see the oft-cited “Do You Feel Like We Do” by Frampton) Though many examples can be found on the ‘nets, this instructable shows a nice straightforward method for building your own […]
