| 📰 Title: | Vocoder (sirlab.de) | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Tool |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Development | 👁️ Visual: | 2D |
| 🏷️ Category: | Development ➤ Audio Production ➤ Vocoder | 🏝️ Perspective: | First person (interface) |
| 🔖 Tags: | Development; Audio Production; Vocoder; LADSPA | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 👫️ Played: | Single | |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2015-07-19 | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 📍️ Version: | JACK : 0.29 / OSS : 0.6.0 / LADSPA : 0.4 | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 🕊️ Libre | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | GPL-2 | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2014-04-14 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-06-22 |
| 📦️ Package name: | lv2vocoder | ..... 📦️ Arch: | |
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| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
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| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 14262 |
| 📜️[en]: | Soundtool for manipulation of human voices. Available as a standalone program with GUI or as a LADSPA plugin | 📜️[fr]: | Un vocodeur, un outil sonore pour la manipulation de voix humaines, disponible en tant que programme autonome (pour serveur de son Jack ou OSS) avec une interface graphique ou sous forme de plugin LADSPA (lv2vocoder) |
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Soundtool for manipulation of human voices. Available as a standalone program with GUI or as a LADSPA plugin
What is a vocoder?
A vocoder is a sound effect that can make a human voice sound synthetic. It is often used to speak like a robot, with a metallic and monotonous voice.
Perhaps you remember the german group Kraftwerk which used a lot of vocoder effects in their songs ("We are the robots" for example).
Vocoders become popular again right now.
On the screenshot you can see the vumeters of the input signals and the controls of the 16 bands. For each band there's a volume slider, panning wheel and a reset button.
Background
To put it simple: whenever you speak, your voice consists of two components. The first component is your basic voice type, produced by your vocal chords. It varies in pitch but remains nearly constant in type and is quite unique. That's why you can distinguish between persons when you hear their voices. The second component is how you modulate the basic voice. Modulation means that you dynamically amplify and attenuate frequencies. This is done by the mouth and tongue when you speak.
Example: Say a long "ohh". To accomplish this task, you nearly close your mouth. Next, say a long "ahh". This time, you opened your mouth. Your vocal chords produced the same sound for both, ohh and ahh but the modulation made it sound different.
The modulation signal is called formant, because it forms and shapes the basic voice, which is called carrier due to the fact that it carries the formant signal. The formant signal carries the information and has a much lower frequency than the carrier, a circumstance that can be used to reduce bandwidth consuption for telephone services. This was also the original intention of a vocder.
What does a vocoder do?
A vocoder aims to replace the carrier of your voice with another carrier from another source. Thus, it changes the sound of the voice but not the message when you speak. It takes formant and carrier from external sources and splits them up in bands (a band is a region of frequencies, same thing an equalizer does). Then, the envelope (the modulation) is extraced from each formant band. This part is done by an envelope follower, an extreme low pass filter. Next, formant bands are modulated onto the carrier bands and the resulting bands are mixed together to the output signal.
The benefit of doing this is, you can make the carrier speak or sing. As a side effect, the formant's voice type is absolutely irrelevant to the output so everybody (even those with an ugly voice) can create cool and futuristic samples :-)
You usually use a human voice as the formant and an instrument as the carrier. It makes the instrument speak. Good results can be achived with strings, brasses, flutes or any other sound with nearly constant dynamic. Even chords may be used to give the result more depth.
Input sources each may be file or soundcard (if supported) as for the output. If you use a soundcard as a source, please note: input is sampled in stereo but internally processed as two mono channels. One channel is considered to be the formant, the other the carrier. If your soundcard is duplex aware, you may even use it as source and destination at the same time. You can talk into the microphone and hear yourself. Unfortunally, soundcards have a high latency and thus, the result has a noticeable delay :-(
Each band can be modified in various ways. Volume and panning are two of them that are already implemented.
Une implémentation d'un vocodeur, par Achim Settelmeier (Settel)
Vocoder (de sirlab.de) est une implémentation d'un vocodeur (une synthèse de son de la voix humaine), un outil sonore pour la manipulation de voix humaines, disponible en tant que programme autonome (pour serveur de son Jack ou OSS) avec une interface graphique ou sous forme de plugin LADSPA (lv2vocoder).
Sur la capture d'écran, vous pouvez voir les vu-mètres des signaux d'entrées et les contrôles des 16 bandes. Pour chaque groupe, il y a un curseur de volume, un potentiomètre et un bouton de ré-initialisation.
Qu'est-ce qu'un vocodeur ?
Un vocodeur est un effet sonore effectuant une synthèse de son de la voix humaine.
Il est souvent utilisé pour parler comme un robot, avec une voix monotone et métallique. Peut-être vous souvenez-vous du groupe allemand Kraftwerk (avec leur chanson "We are the robots") - ou plus récemment, le groupe français Daft punk qui a utilisé à plusieurs reprises des effets de vocodeurs dans ses chansons.
💡 Nota:
Audacity (dans le Bottin) dispose aussi d'un module vocodeur, permettant de mixer votre voix avec une musique ou un générateur de bruit (voir la section "Docs" ci-dessus).