Indie dev's vocal synth models vocal tract as acoustic tube network, impressing early listeners
nptacek · x · 2026-11-13
Indie developer jamesonhodge showcased a homegrown vocal synthesis model that, unlike Vocaloid's approach of stitching and pitch-shifting phoneme recordings, models the vocal tract as a network of branching acoustic tubes. Naturalness is still being tuned against recordings of real singers, but results already sound impressively cool — someone even used it to produce a snippet of the European anthem.
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