Chimera Vocal Synth

There was a post to a tweet about this but I also found there's a GitHub repo for the software and this link to it running! Earlier tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410728 GitHub repo: https://github.com/jamesondh/chimera-vocal-synth

Is it not supposed to work on phone? All I hear is noise and engine keeps loading beyond 100%

• martin_balsam · 7 hours ago

  It works on iOS for me

The eye blink concerns me ...

I could see this being very useful in a number of applications. Being trans, of course voice affirmation training. Then singing comes to mind, followed by language learning. A solid visual demo like this would help give people more than "okay now more like the a in aunt"

• goodmythical · 4 hours ago

  Why the fuck is this being downvoted? Am I not allowed to mention ways that a thing could be useful?

  • softboyled · 4 hours ago

    You are.

• kstrauser · 2 hours ago

  Huh, that wouldn't have occured to me. Thanks for a new perspective!

• NDlurker · 2 hours ago

  I pronounce it aunt but a lot of people pronounce it aunt.

I guess this is like a modern version of pink trombone - https://dood.al/pinktrombone/ Also is the name a Teto reference?

• grugagag · 6 hours ago

  Yes, this reminds me exactly of pink trombone. Thanks for posting the link, I'll re-add it to my bookmarks.

• ks2048 · 1 hour ago

  which is itself a version of research going back nearly 100 years. e.g. the "Voder" by Homer Dudley - Bell Labs, 1939: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo

That was very intriguing, I was able to tune the false vocal folds and adopt the proper anatomical positions and it did output a proper Khoomei overtone. I wasn't able to find the Kargyraa range, but I managed a decent Sygyt. Damned impressive setup.

This is weird and fun. Brings me back to one undergraduate class where we used the IPA a lot

There are a bunch of fun examples on Twitter of things people are doing with Chimera: https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2118733265372860826 https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119372853502177323 https://x.com/CupOJoseph/status/2119260104641900595 https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2119085825509954042 https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119319095275671582

I learned to throat sing to put my baby to sleep. I'm having fun trying to figure out what all the shapes of the different mouth/throat components I make to get the same sound in the synth.

My work is done for the day. https://bsky.app/profile/stewleach.bsky.social/post/3mzts6gg...

Thanks, I hate it haha.

I love how creepy 3D view is.

Next step: reverse engineer Freddie Mercury's glottal physiology from queen tracks and fourier analysis, pass it around as a VST plugin. Please and thank you.

• s20n · 38 minutes ago

  I wonder if the Freddie Mercury License ("Do whatever you want with my music, just don't make it boring") meets the OSI Open Source Definition

Will make a great vocoder, once a mic is connected to it. The vocal folds though? Lol

Can't whistle?