carniola
October 8th, 2009, 08:03 AM
Austrian Composer Peter Ablinger has transformed a child speaking so that it can be played as MIDI events on a mechanically-controlled piano, making the piano a kind of speech speaker...
The basic process is, 1) convert the sound spectrum of the recorded voice to a series of MIDI events, and 2) play back the translated MIDI file. You can see that the MIDI playback is accomplished with Pd (Pure Data) running on a Linux/KDE netbook.
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/06/the-speaking-piano-and-transforming-audio-to-midi/
The basic process is, 1) convert the sound spectrum of the recorded voice to a series of MIDI events, and 2) play back the translated MIDI file. You can see that the MIDI playback is accomplished with Pd (Pure Data) running on a Linux/KDE netbook.
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/06/the-speaking-piano-and-transforming-audio-to-midi/