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From: alvin@netcom.com (Alvin H. White)
Subject: Computer Sings, David's Harp & the Sounds of Music
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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 04:01:41 GMT
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Well, here is another of those wierd, far out questions.

I need to find, or create, a buzzword to describe a new
type of electronic music.

It is to fall between the byte sizes 0f MIDI and WAV.

Humm. MIDI WAV Tempered  MWT, or WAV Tempered MIDI WTM,
or Tempered WAV MIDI TWM.

Maybe something with CELP in there. More on CELP further along.

Why. .wav is too big and MIDI too pure of humanity. Wonderful
clock or metronome but certainly comes out far short on the
human touch or voice.

So how could we come up with something that is a compromise?

There is a thing called CELP discussed occasionally over in
comp.speech and comp.dsp. Off the top of my head it stands 
for something like Computer Excited Linear Predictive  voice 
coder. It is some type of speech compression and digitization
method to send voice data through a modem around 4800 baud or
9600 baud. It was well worked out by the Federal Government or
so and is, or was, FTP'able from like the comp.speech archive
at ftp-svr@eng.cam.ac.uk.

I am not a programmer but I looked over the code several years
ago. As I remember it has about a hundred or so little speech
building blocks, not necessarily called phonemes or syllables
but something close to my understanding.

It seems that it samples the speech at one end, encodes and 
sends by modem and then synthesizes at the other end.

I have never heard one but from reading, the voice was less
than Plain Old Telephone quality but was sufficient to much
verbal communication.

From this then I conclude that such a scheme might be emulated,
if not precisely used, to create a fusion of computer music
card sound and words/lyrics beyond Text To Speech synthesis.

Might one then have the MIDI type music in one side of a
stereo sound system and the words/lyrics in the other?
It seems that a computer sound system could then mix to local
preferences.

Now if we had a quad system we could add ascii/postscript/
ISO10646/Unicode on channel 3 and put in samples of cd quality
sound on channel 4.

Well, what do they say?, "Too Many Cooks Spoils The Soup".
This could lead to a batch of World Music Soup to keep a few
of us confucius'ed for quite a while.

Maybe toast with netjam for Rx.
The morning after.





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