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).
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.
Overall a really nice app though; honestly I was kinda blown away by it.
Scrolling is an issue on iOS. Where my finger lands to scroll the page is captured by the head view. Took me a while to figure out how to get passed it.
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.
https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2118733265372860826
https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119372853502177323
https://x.com/CupOJoseph/status/2119260104641900595
https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2119085825509954042
https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119319095275671582
https://bsky.app/profile/mattbrown.dev/post/3mzuepfp2222c
:-(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0
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.
Overall a really nice app though; honestly I was kinda blown away by it.
Also is the name a Teto reference?
Discusses many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912628 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14135658
e.g. the "Voder" by Homer Dudley - Bell Labs, 1939:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyI_dM5cGo
> This was a complex machine to operate. After months of practice, a trained operator could produce recognizable speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voder
Being trans, of course voice affirmation training.
Then singing comes to mind, followed by language learning.
A solid visual demo like this would help give people more than "okay now more like the a in aunt"
Earlier tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410728
GitHub repo: https://github.com/jamesondh/chimera-vocal-synth
Is that a modded version with 4 quartet singers at once?
Damned impressive setup.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zHeGKQxoOEg
Please and thank you.
The vocal folds though? Lol