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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: voice synthesizer
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Date: 30 Apr 91 13:51:53 GMT
References: <33454@mimsy.umd.edu> <1991Apr25.210916.348@vicorp.com> <33614@mimsy.umd.edu> <1991Apr29.202550.12985@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
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In article <1991Apr29.202550.12985@rodan.acs.syr.edu> ctdonath@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Carl T. Donath) writes:
>Has anyone tried synthesizing phonemes on a music synth, esp. a TG77?
>I'd like to create a synthetic chorus - clarity is not a major concern, 
>as long as phonemes can be built into roughly understandable words.

There are patches for the DX7 (and probably the TG77) that attempt to
sound like human voices.  Of course, they are rather crude but they
do have a strange "vocal" quality to them.  I examined some of these
patches once to see what they were doing.  They composed of the usual
FM operators that created a "generic", pitched tone plus at least
one operator that was fixed at a carefully chosen frequency which seemed
to do the trick.

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