There are a bunch of fun examples on Twitter of things people are doing with Chimera:<p><a href="https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2118733265372860826" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2118733265372860826</a><p><a href="https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119372853502177323" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119372853502177323</a><p><a href="https://x.com/CupOJoseph/status/2119260104641900595" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/CupOJoseph/status/2119260104641900595</a><p><a href="https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2119085825509954042" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2119085825509954042</a><p><a href="https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119319095275671582" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119319095275671582</a>
I made another:<p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mattbrown.dev/post/3mzuepfp2222c" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/mattbrown.dev/post/3mzuepfp2222c</a>
That's awesome. Did you do that "by hand", or did you script Chimera to produce it?
Hilarious! Thanks for sharing :)
Yes, you did spend too much time on that, but it was worth it!
Yes but why do they all sound Indian? It's like hearing Apu singing :)
I guess this is like a modern version of pink trombone - <a href="https://dood.al/pinktrombone/" rel="nofollow">https://dood.al/pinktrombone/</a><p>Also is the name a Teto reference?
> <a href="https://dood.al/pinktrombone/" rel="nofollow">https://dood.al/pinktrombone/</a><p>Discusses many years ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912628">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912628</a> and <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14135658">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14135658</a>
which is itself a version of research going back nearly 100 years.<p>e.g. the "Voder" by Homer Dudley - Bell Labs, 1939:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo</a>
Was going to write about that too! The Wikipedia article is a fun read:<p>> This was a complex machine to operate. After months of practice, a trained operator could produce recognizable speech.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voder" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voder</a>
Yes, this reminds me exactly of pink trombone. Thanks for posting the link, I'll re-add it to my bookmarks.
I could see this being very useful in a number of applications.<p>Being trans, of course voice affirmation training.<p>Then singing comes to mind, followed by language learning.<p>A solid visual demo like this would help give people more than "okay now more like the a in aunt"
I pronounce it aunt but a lot of people pronounce it aunt.
Huh, that wouldn't have occured to me. Thanks for a new perspective!
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This is the kind of experience I want on a Monday morning
There was a post to a tweet about this but I also found there's a GitHub repo for the software and this link to it running!<p>Earlier tweet:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410728">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410728</a><p>GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/jamesondh/chimera-vocal-synth" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jamesondh/chimera-vocal-synth</a>
There does seem to be a bug - if you drag the tongue to the bottom left-most position, close the lips and bring them back as far as possible, raise the larynx all the way, and lower the soft palate all the way, the synthesizer starts making some kind of inhuman screeching sound (which is definitely not physically accurate).<p>My best guess for why is that the simulation parameters are set up slightly wrong in a way that is mostly fine for normal simulations (not an audible amount of distortion) but quickly goes off the rails on weird cases like the aforementioned.<p>Overall a really nice app though; honestly I was kinda blown away by it.
I can't work out how Klaus did the Mr. Sandman version.<p>Is that a modded version with 4 quartet singers at once?
I learned to throat sing to put my baby to sleep. I'm having fun trying to figure out what all the shapes of the different mouth/throat components I make to get the same sound in the synth.
That was very intriguing, I was able to tune the false vocal folds and adopt the proper anatomical positions and it did output a proper Khoomei overtone. I wasn't able to find the Kargyraa range, but I managed a decent Sygyt.<p>Damned impressive setup.
Can it do throat singing?
This is weird and fun. Brings me back to one undergraduate class where we used the IPA a lot
My work is done for the day. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/stewleach.bsky.social/post/3mzts6gg5hs2u" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/stewleach.bsky.social/post/3mzts6gg...</a>
Next step: reverse engineer Freddie Mercury's glottal physiology from queen tracks and fourier analysis, pass it around as a VST plugin.<p>Please and thank you.
Time to figure out that damn Australian "o" by flapping the tongue about...<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zHeGKQxoOEg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zHeGKQxoOEg</a>
Will make a great vocoder, once a mic is connected to it.<p>The vocal folds though? Lol
Is it not supposed to work on phone? All I hear is noise and engine keeps loading beyond 100%
Can't whistle?
The eye blink concerns me ...
I love how creepy 3D view is.
Thanks, I hate it haha.
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