Argon synthesizes its own voice from scratch: pure Python, no audio libraries
fofrAI · x · 2026-10-14
A developer had Gemini 4 Argon synthesize a voice for itself using only Python, no libraries: text-to-phoneme conversion with stress patterns, a source-filter model built from periodic pitch pulses and cascaded resonators, vocal fold airflow shaped by the Liljencrants-Fant equation with open-phase breath noise, 5 vocal tract chambers with turbulent consonant hiss and 18ms stop bursts, syllables connected via fifth-degree minimum-jerk curves, plus subglottal rebound, lung-pressure envelopes and lip radiation physics. The video shows the voice's evolution.
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