Ask HN: Are there human sound generation emulators?

Re:Ask HN: Are there human sound generation emulators? by tomcam on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:13AM (#13920219)

It's called modeling the human vocal tract. Sampling, then tweaking with DSP has proven to be a better approach.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there human sound generation emulators? by dmingoddd on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:28AM (#13920791)

But like a rendering engine are there sound software that can generate and simulate realistic sounds without being fed recorded stuff in.....

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Re:Ask HN: Are there human sound generation emulators? by tomcam on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:59PM (#13936287)

Yes, I get what you want. This approach is used in many modern synthesizers, such as the Korg Kronos. It's just that approach proved to be too complicated to get working well for speech to text. I was a little surprised myself. Google for vocal tract modeling and you'll see it pretty much died out a decade or so ago.

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