Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White) (07/18/90)
Birds can sing. Children can sing. Whales can sing. When is the last time you heard of a singing computer. Computers are supposed to be very capable. Have you heard of even a supercomputer that can sing? Why not? A. Time change without pitch change. The international computer chess tournament has been around a long time. Singing has been around even longer. Part of the problem is that computer speech experts and computer music experts can't talk to one another. One of my favorite stories for computer conferences is approximately thus: "I went to an Apple Show and said "How about music?" "Someone said, Why certainly, right up there at the 'Music Maker exhibit'. I said thank you, now what about computer speech? They said, "Why certainly, right over there at the "SmoothTalker exhibit." Again, I thanked them and then added, "I am from G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N. and I am looking for a "Singing Teacher." They said, "Oh, that is a problem because the SmoothTalker people and the Music Maker people don't speak the same language. I said, "As best I know, all human societies on Earth have had singing teachers throughout all of recorded history, as a consequence my mathematical projection is that sooner or later a smoothe talker is going to wind up in bed with a music maker and they will have a little singing teacher." "If you hear of one, I hope you will drop me a line because "G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N. is looking for a singing teacher." Sincerely, Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect. G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N. Government Online Database Systems Bureau for Resourch Allocation to Information Networks (GODSBRAIN)
maverick@fir.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick) (07/18/90)
||~?~?~?~?~Xavier Rodet's CHANT program is now 12 years old or so.
And if you're willing to accept completely implausible singing as
evidence that speech people and computer music people talk, the
ancient "Music from Mathematics" album (late 50's) included a
rendition of "A Bicycle Built for Two."smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar) (07/19/90)
IRCAM has software which sings the major cadenza from "Der Hoelle Rache." It seems to be part of any standard IRCAM demonstration. The simulation is not bad; and the performance is, of course, absolutely flawless. It is utterly boring. ========================================================================= USPS: Stephen Smoliar USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001 Marina del Rey, California 90292-6695 Internet: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu "It's only words . . . unless they're true."--David Mamet
thompson@adobe.com (Ross Thompson) (07/19/90)
Listen to KraftWerk. What more need I say?