Re:Why does an A note sound different across instruments?
by m463 on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:49PM
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Are you saying you could say, do a spectral analysis of someone singing or talking, then make a physical instrument that sounds similar?
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Re:Why does an A note sound different across instruments?
by neltnerb on Monday March 01, 2021 @08:56PM
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Sure, you can do that kind of thing in principle. I think the vocal cord model needs to be constrained which will not be very fair, but I was reading papers over a decade ago about simulating speech with physical models of the voice. I assume that's how they guess what dinosaurs might have sounded like.
Of course, with such a complicated and underconstrained system you might need to basically tell it what a human vocal system roughly looks like and let it calculate parameters based on the model. Maybe not though, neural networks are surprising sometimes.