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## voice

voice — An emulation of a human voice.

## Description

An emulation of a human voice.

## Syntax

    ares voice kamp, kfreq, kphoneme, kform, kvibf, kvamp, ifn, ivfn

## Initialization

ifn, ivfn -- two table numbers containing the carrier waveform and the vibrato waveform. The files impuls20.aiff, ahh.aiff, eee.aiff, or ooo.aiff are suitable for the first of these, and a sine wave for the second. These files are available from ftp://ftp.cs.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/documentation/sounds/modelling/.

## Performance

kamp -- Amplitude of note.

kfreq -- Frequency of note played. It can be varied in performance.

kphoneme -- an integer in the range 0 to 16, which select the formants for the sounds:

- “eee”, “ihh”, “ehh”, “aaa”,

- “ahh”, “aww”, “ohh”, “uhh”,

- “uuu”, “ooo”, “rrr”, “lll”,

- “mmm”, “nnn”, “nng”, “ngg”.

At present the phonemes

- “fff”, “sss”, “thh”, “shh”,

- “xxx”, “hee”, “hoo”, “hah”,

- “bbb”, “ddd”, “jjj”, “ggg”,

- “vvv”, “zzz”, “thz”, “zhh”

are not available (!)

kform -- Gain on the phoneme. values 0.0 to 1.2 recommended.

kvibf -- frequency of vibrato in Hertz. Suggested range is 0 to 12

kvamp -- amplitude of the vibrato

## Examples

Here is an example of the voice opcode. It uses the file voice.csd, and impuls20.aiff.

Example 1146. Example of the voice opcode.

See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.

    <CsoundSynthesizer>
    <CsOptions>
    ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
    -odac  ;;;realtime audio out
    ;-iadc    ;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too
    ; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
    ; -o voice.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
    </CsOptions>
    <CsInstruments>

    sr = 44100
    ksmps = 32
    nchnls = 2
    0dbfs  = 1

    instr 1

    kamp  = p4
    kphon = p5
    asig  voice kamp, 200, kphon, 0.488, 0, 1, 1, 2
          outs asig, asig

    endin
    </CsInstruments>
    <CsScore>
    f 1 0 256 1 "impuls20.aiff" 0 0 0	;audio file for the carrier waveform
    f 2 0 256 10 1				;sine wave for the vibrato waveform

    ;       ampl phoneme
    i 1 0 2 0.8    1
    i 1 + . 0.6    2
    i 1 + . 1.8    3
    i 1 + . 15.0   4
    i 1 + . 0.05   5
    i 1 + . 0.06   6
    i 1 + . 0.03   7
    i 1 + . 0.0002 8
    i 1 + . 0.1    9
    i 1 + . 0.5   10
    i 1 + . 100   11
    i 1 + . 0.03  12
    i 1 + . 0.04  13
    i 1 + . 0.04  14
    i 1 + . 0.04  15
    i 1 + . 0.05  16

    e
    </CsScore>
    </CsoundSynthesizer>

## Credits

Author: John ffitch (after Perry Cook)
University of Bath, Codemist Ltd.
Bath, UK

New in Csound version 3.47

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