Dev builds vocal-tract-modeled voice synth, sings NES tunes a cappella
bennash · x · 2026-11-11
Developer jamesonhodge demos a homegrown vocal synth that models the vocal tract as a network of branching acoustic tubes, unlike Vocaloid's stitched-and-pitch-shifted phoneme recordings. He's tuning naturalness against real singer recordings and says the early results already sound impressively cool — showcased singing NES tunes a cappella.
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