[Clam-devel] Re: GSoC 2008: Educational Vowel Synthesiser

[Pawel Bartkiewicz]

Sorry, I forgot about the .clamnetwork.pos file:
http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~i7bartki/files/clam/VowelSynth_with_GlottalSource_and_ADSR.clamnetwork.pos

On 17/04/2008, Pawel Bartkiewicz <tuuresairon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a student from Poland and I'd like to work on Educational Vowel
> Synthesiser as my GSoC project this year. I've been playing with
> NetworkEditor for some time today and here is what I've come up with:
>
> I have modified the example vowel synthesiser CLAM network by
> replacing HarmonicPeaksGenerator with GlotalSourceGenerator and adding
> an ADSR volume envelope. The network can be downloaded from:
> http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~i7bartki/files/clam/VowelSynth_with_GlottalSource_and_ADSR.clamnetwork
> Several vowels generated by this network are available as mp3 files here:
> http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~i7bartki/files/clam/
> I think this example shows clearly that a proper amplitude envelope
> can make the synthesised vowels sound more natural so it's something
> to be considered when writing an educational vowel synthesiser
> (controlling vowel length should be possible as well because some
> languages differ short and long vowels).
> The network uses LADSPA plugin "ADSR Envelope" probably from
> Bandlimited LADSPA Oscillator Plugins library (http://blop.sf.net).
>
> Thanks,
> Pawel
>