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Re:Patrick's Parabox on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:24PM (#30872366)
This looks super fun! Reminds me of the "first-person recursive puzzle game" Maquette: https://store.steampowered.com/app/762840/Maquette/
Re:Ink – Scripting language for interactive stories on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:27PM (#26149044)
Jon Ingold (inkle's narrative director) has a great talk on game dialogue [1] -- he implements a scene from Blade Runner in Ink. Super insightful and entertaining.

I've been using Ink a lot lately and really appreciate the work the community has put into it! Our team released a suite of interactive songs [2] last year -- we used Ink (and its handy Unity integration) to implement the core mechanic of two-player lyric choices in real-time, and even used it to handle some truth table logic for the credits :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRfNtvFVRo [2] http://evergreenblues.com/

Re:Portmanteau Generator on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:55AM (#19243601)
"existential" + "angst" yields some great results, including despairitual (despair/spiritual), tormentological (torment/ontological), and sartrevail (sartre/travail)
Re:JavaScript singing synthesis library on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @07:57PM (#12697345)
Project author here, just want to say thanks gattilorenz for sharing (was quite the pleasant surprise to see this on the front page!) and everyone for the feedback + fascinating projects, ideas, links etc. Really cool to see so much enthusiasm for speech+singing synthesis and Web Audio!
Re:JavaScript singing synthesis library on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @06:54PM (#12697027)
EDIT: This issue has now been fixed. However, it's led me to notice some (unrelated) timing problems in both Safari and Firefox, which will take some deeper digging to figure out. Seems like browser compatibility rabbit hole never ends!

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Thanks for this; I've fixed that issue and started on getting it compatible with Safari, but turns out there are some other errors regarding Float32Array mapping and support for AudioBuffer.copyToChannel(). I'll have to look more into this, but rest assured I'll push the changes when I get it working in Safari!

Re:JavaScript singing synthesis library on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @03:12PM (#12695677)
Thanks for the feedback, and yeah I agree that it's pretty primitive at the moment (it can't even do legato!). I'm working on improving it though, and hopefully it demonstrates some of the potential for Web Audio applications; I actually originally made this for a demo session at this year's Web Audio Conference [0].

Modeling singers using machine learning would be really neat; I'm not too hip to the current research around that, although the idea brings to mind WaveNet [1], which seems like it'd be absolutely fascinating to try with pitched audio / using musical parameters.

[0] http://webaudio.gatech.edu/

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...

Re:JavaScript singing synthesis library on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @03:01PM (#12695594)
Thanks! And that would be awesome, definitely interested in that. MidiPlayerJS looks great. Let's try it out and see what we can make happen!
Re:JavaScript singing synthesis library on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @02:38PM (#12695430)
Original author here; good catch, I've fixed it now so it'll sing whatever lyrics + notes are in the grid when you press "Set Voices". Thanks for pointing that out!