rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu (09/12/90)
The other day I dug up my old copy of Lightspeed Pascal 1.0 and found the interface and object code for the MacinTalk library. I would like to get my Macintosh to sing, but to do that, I will need to know how the pitch numbers you feed to MacinTalk relate to the frequency of the sound that comes out of the speaker. At least I would need to know what two pitch numbers sound an octave apart when played. If anyone knows how to tune MacinTalk I would appreciate any information you have on the subject. Thanks. Randall Cook *** RCook@Eagle.Wesleyan.EDU
pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) (09/13/90)
I played around with this a bit. (One of the things I traditionally do on new computers is get them to "sing" _Let's Make the Water Turn Black_, whether "singing" involves just playing the notes and printing the words or actually singing the words.) I came to the conclusion that, even in robotic mode, there were too many variations in pitch to make it sound good. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster) (09/13/90)
I've spent some time on the problem of teaching my macintosh to sing, and
the best I've come up with is to have it go through a few quick run
throughs and have it calibrate itself by successive refinement. Once it knows
how long to hold a syllable at a given pitch to stay on the beat, it
can save the correction data away, so when you ask it to sing, it will
immediately do the right thing.
All _2001_ fans want a Macintalk version of "Daisy".
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