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Charles Dodge, Synthesized Voices

A 1976 experimental/avant-garde recording of computer synthesis of speech in a musical context. Fascinating and, occasionally, disturbing.

Homer Dudley developed the underlying tech while at Bell Labs.

"Using mainframe computers at Bell Laboratories, [Charles] Dodge analysed and dismantled audio recordings of surrealist poetry by Mark Strand, mathematically and meticulously reconstructing them in synthetic form - resulting in these uncanny, landmark pieces that spearheaded early computer speech synthesis as a form for musical composition."

Buy the album here:

Hoping for the first Chipspeech concert, super excited to see it when it comes out! Any idea for a setlist?

My Chipspiration of Vocaloid's Magical Mirai (マジカルミライ): Interstellar Mirai(インターステラーミライ)

Just like Magical Mirai, Interstellar Mirai has a vocal introduction after the band members' introduction, and the ending MC has all of them!

How Interstellar Mirai's vocal introduction works: Introducing all of them, with the stage lights and light ocean changing color everytime a member is introduced, member's name appearing on the screen. For Dandy 704(leader): His name, written as "Dandy!!!!!!!!!!" in light blue, daisies rain down.

Hoping they will be in Nico Nico Cho Party 2026!

Hex codes for each character's representative colors

Bert: #00FA00(green)

Parsec: #EE00FF(magenta)

Otto: #FA0000(red)

Dandy: #2295FA (light blue)

Dee: #FFC83F(amber)

Spencer: #A50AFF(purple)

Terminal: #FF77BE(pink)

VOSIM: #FAD500(yellow)

Cider: #00FFFF(cyan)

Rotten: #1447FF(dark blue)

SAM: #57297C(dark purple/indigo)

Chiptober days 11, 12, 13 - SAM, Voder & Pedro

I'm behind on prompts but didn't wanna wait any longer to post these >_<

Homer Dudley - The Voder

“ The Voder was first unveiled in 1939 at the New York World Fair (where it was demonstrated at hourly intervals) and later in 1940 in San Francisco. There were twenty trained operators known as the ‘girls’ who handled the machine much like a musical instrument such as a piano or an organ, but they managed to successfully produce human speech during the demonstrations. ... This was done by manipulating fourteen keys with the fingers, a bar with the left wrist and a foot pedal with the right foot. “

V1 may have been the first with no piolet and ran on blood, but they where not the first one made by the company.

Transcript

V1: what?

Of course I'm the first V-model!

Why would I be called V1 if not?