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Terence Eden Dec 20, 2022

This is *amazing*.
You can take an MP3 and encode it into MIDI. The results are horrifyingly mesmerising. Can you hear the vocal?
(Stolen from https://www.tumblr.com/red3blog/135098280942/formeldeharv-i-put-all-i-want-for-christmas-is )

Red No. 3

I'm driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don't know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with mod…

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house-of-left Dec 22, 2023

@Edent This is insane, horrible and mesmerizing all at the same time.

Really curious though, does anyone know how I can actually hear the vocals? Is it really possible to synthesize speech with only piano sounds?

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R. Brent Stansfield

@houseofleft @Edent Look up Bregman's "sine wave speech" work from the 90s. I'm guessing the pitch of the piano notes combined with the low frequency of the inter-note interval is approximating forments of vowel sounds. Cool illusion.