[Tyler]

Piano-based Voice Synthesizer
     


Ed Okerson writes,
"at a DPRG club meeting a few months ago, some
of the members were discussing building robotic musical instruments.
Well, here is a very interesting application
for a mechanically actuated piano." Ed's talking about Austrian
composer Peter Ablinger's
mechanically actuated piano which speaks by
breaking human speech down into "pixels", each of which is a piano note.
The voice processing and piano control was done using custom software
developed by the Ablinger and run on a GNU/Linux machine.
A translation of the German narration describing the process can be
found in the "more
info" section of the YouTube page.
   

http://robots.net/article/2929.html
     

[Art]

This is just too cool!

Although some of the words / phrases were not that legible, most were.
It had kind of an erie sound almost as if the piano was posessed.

I really can't imagine too many applications of use other than an instrumental
music teacher (the piano corrects the player). I would also think the cost
to outfit such a piano would be rather costly.

"Play it again, Sam."

[Freddy]

Bizarre but cool, never did I think I would see a talking piano 

[Maviarab]

Now thats just plain weird and freaky lol

[lrh9]

Now all we have to do is imbue the program controlling the piano with the personality of Scott Joplin. Great music!