Mechanical reproduction of digitized speech on a piano

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2009/10/07 @ 8:04 am
Category Art & Design, Electronics, Music, Robotics

Possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen. A work by Austrian composer Peter Ablinger. [via Neatorama]

BY Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I write for MAKE, serve as Technical Editor for MAKE magazine, and develop original DIY content for Make: Projects.

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4 Responses to Mechanical reproduction of digitized speech on a piano

astrosmash on October 7th, 2009 at 11:29 am said:

Get these guys on the TED talk series!

http://www.ted.com/

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Dan Clark on October 7th, 2009 at 12:21 pm said:

It would be interesting to see if the piano-speech would be more understandable if the passage were read by a native speaker, in a more recognizable accent. It is still amazing how the speech in the video is immediately recognizable when paired with subtitles, but difficult to make out sans subtitles. Our perceptions are very much influenced by our (conscious or unconscious) expectations.

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XsavioR on October 11th, 2009 at 8:28 pm said:

This is amazing. wish i could get the video to play w/o lag

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Marcel on October 14th, 2009 at 2:09 am said:

You say ‘see these guys on TED.com

I searched TED.com and could see it.

Could you post a link?

thanks.

Fantastic project. I wonder if it’s able to process speech in realtime? and how does it handle sung lyrics?

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