<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">I love this talking piano device and have wondered how it works. I imagine it must have similarities to a vocoder in how it works. Does anybody know?</div><div dir="ltr">It would be super interesting to have a plugin that translates speech into midi like this:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Sep 1, 2019, at 5:22 PM, David G Dixon <<a href="mailto:dixon@mail.ubc.ca">dixon@mail.ubc.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Also, I just wanted to mention that I have
listened to some of the many clips of the MFOS vocoder posted by the late,
great Ray Wilson, and… I don’t find the speech to be very intelligible. I
would have to do better than that to be satisfied with my efforts. The JH one
was pretty intelligible (notwithstanding the thick German accent – he may have
been speaking German for part of it…?).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I’ll also look at some of the classic
vocoder schematics. I”ve got the Roland VP-330 to study – that one sounds
pretty sweet. I don’t just want to clone something, though – that’s definitely
not my style.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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