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Chimera Vocal Synth

(chimera-vocal-synth.vercel.app)

I could see this being very useful in a number of applications.

Being trans, of course voice affirmation training.

Then singing comes to mind, followed by language learning.

A solid visual demo like this would help give people more than "okay now more like the a in aunt"

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Why the fuck is this being downvoted? Am I not allowed to mention ways that a thing could be useful?
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You are.
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There was a post to a tweet about this but I also found there's a GitHub repo for the software and this link to it running!

Earlier tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410728

GitHub repo: https://github.com/jamesondh/chimera-vocal-synth

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I guess this is like a modern version of pink trombone - https://dood.al/pinktrombone/

Also is the name a Teto reference?

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Yes, this reminds me exactly of pink trombone. Thanks for posting the link, I'll re-add it to my bookmarks.
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I learned to throat sing to put my baby to sleep. I'm having fun trying to figure out what all the shapes of the different mouth/throat components I make to get the same sound in the synth.
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I love how creepy 3D view is.
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That was very intriguing, I was able to tune the false vocal folds and adopt the proper anatomical positions and it did output a proper Khoomei overtone. I wasn't able to find the Kargyraa range, but I managed a decent Sygyt.

Damned impressive setup.

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This is weird and fun. Brings me back to one undergraduate class where we used the IPA a lot
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Thanks, I hate it haha.
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Is it not supposed to work on phone? All I hear is noise and engine keeps loading beyond 100%
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It works on iOS for me
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The eye blink concerns me ...
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