Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White) (07/20/90)
Some one mentioned a program called CHANT. Sounds interesting, where can I find out about it. There was some other mention of programs that sing. Anybody know how many can sing in tongues, simultaneously. That is to say that if you hook up several voice synthesis modules one should be able to sing in tongues, simultaneously. A fellow from RAND, the other day, in reference to questions relating to TIME CHANGE WITHOUT PITCH CHANGE and simultaneous singing of clue words in a second language that remained in time to the music in the original tongue track, asked how I would handle words that could not be translated word for word and remain true to the original's time. I think if "Scubby Dubby Do" had to be clue word dubbed [notice that I did not use the word translated"] to "she bop she bop" I would just accept that as only occuring in a small percentage of the cases.
maverick@fir.berkeley.edu (Vance Maverick) (07/21/90)
Singing in tongues? Is that like speaking in tongues? Not having heard glossolalia in action, I don't know if it presents special problems -- I seem to recall my phonetics teacher saying people used the phonemes of their native language, in which case it wouldn't. My reference on CHANT is Xavier Rodet, Yves Potard, and Jean-Baptiste Barriere. The CHANT project: From the Synthesis of the Singing Voice to Synthesis in General. Computer Music Journal (volume? number?), 1984. Reprinted in Curtis Roads, ed., The Music Machine, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.