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You can't fool me with all your clever talk. There's a little man
inside that piano, I tell you. James W. Beauchamp wrote: I have to say that Sparky's talking piano voice is a lot more intelligible than the other examples given. Sparky's piano evidentally used some kind of (analog) vocoder method. It's just an example of subtractive synthesis winning out over additive synthesis, especially when the atoms are not sine waves. Jim Beauchamp Univ. of Illinois Bob Carlyon wrote:From: Bob Carlyon <bob.carlyon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:11:37 +0100 Organization: Medical Research Council To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [AUDITORY] Talking piano: Sparky debate on the auditory list Comments: To: Markus Noisternig <Markus.Noisternig@xxxxxxxx> Is it just me who was reminded of Sparky's Magic Piano? Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3etiNLAFi0 and start the video after about 3 mins 15 seconds.... bob PS. Before anyone asks, no I was /not/ around in the 1940s when this came out first....PSS I was but I missed it somehow. These cuts are followed by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYGmerbDs-w (part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OmTgHf0Z8o (part 3) -- Dr. Bob Carlyon MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit 15 Chaucer Rd Cambridge CB2 7EF England Tel: +44 1223 355294 Fax: +44 1223 359062 www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/hearing |