Voice simulator (helpful for singers)

I went on this massive journey to learn how to sing so I studied the crap out of the vocal tract. I even underwent a laryngoscopy (it was painful!). I wanted to know what was really going on inside. I couldn’t find any clear video or animation on how things really worked so I built my own voice simulator and used my own vocal samples. This project was so difficult I almost gave up!

If you want to try it out its here: https://corporationswine.com/simulator

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woot! I did not even know that could be a thing :smiley:

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This is mesmerizing and well done on the sounds effects :slight_smile:

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I had no idea of any of this :open_mouth: Great demo!!!

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Neat! Great teaching and visualization tool. Babylon.js is so good for this kind of interactivity. Great work.

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haha that’s amazing.
Maybe out of scope but could be great for language learners too (with the mouth obv)

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Thanx for the nice comments everyone!

I could definitely expand this because there’s more to singing/speaking than just this. Quite a lot affects the sound that comes out. The problem is the reference material is lacking. All that exists are videofluoroscopies (video x-ray of someone singing) and laryngoscopies (small camera inside vocal tract) and these only show one angle. So my concern is having to guess and possibility presenting inaccurate animations.

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These guys have images of all the sounds you can make:https://www.seeingspeech.ac.uk/
kinda hard to make out, but between the mri and animation, maybe.
Just thinking back to school leaning about “alveolo-palatal fricatives” n such.

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This looks like an incredible learning tool! I studied linguistics at uni and would have loved something like this when learning about the larynx.

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Wow that is super-useful!!! I will be referring to this when I expand the simulator.