Vocal synth models vocal tract as branching acoustic tubes, not spliced phonemes

flngr · x · 2026-11-09

Developer jamesonhodge shared a self-built vocal synth that models the vocal tract as a network of branching acoustic tubes, unlike Vocaloid's approach of stitching and pitch-shifting phoneme recordings. He is still tuning naturalness against recordings of real singers but is already impressed by the result — shared alongside a meme showing a glowing vocal-tract diagram labeled "Doo Doo Bah Doo."

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