Synthetic and natural voice: An inquiry into sensing and perceiving vocality
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Lawrence McGuire
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This project tackles the issue of describing, composing, and perceiving vocality in a synthetic context, highlighting an experiential approach to the perception of a vocal signal. The research primarily focuses
on the idea of fusions of sounds, particularly fusions between synthetic and natural voice, where the
resulting quality enriches a vocal experience through the ambiguities and multiplicities it brings forth.
Design choices and aesthetical considerations of a computer program for vocal synthesis are then
discussed in relation to my own approaches to vocal composition.
