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29 Jul 2024 04:22:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Objective listening  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 1 Oct 2012 22:34:00
Message: <506a5298$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/1/2012 9:44 AM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> Have you listened to the developer commentary?
>
> Yes.
>
>>> (And yes, she can sing in tune. However, no human can quantinise their
>>> vocal pitch as harshly and artificially as a machine can.)
>>
>> I've heard people do pretty amazing things with their voices.  It takes a
>> lot of training and practice, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't
>> someone who could mimic the effect.
>
> That's like claiming that there are people who can move their arm from
> point A to point B without it visibly passing through any of the points
> in between.
>
> A machine with a hydrolic arm powered by fifteen tonnes of pressure can
> do this. A human being cannot.
There is some obscure Asian cult that involves desynchronizing one's 
vocal cords, so that each one produces a different frequency and sound 
(they normally approximate the same pitch at all times), so... not sure 
how "impossible" it is.


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