Chimera Grows a Voice from a Simulated Airway
Chimera Vocal Synth
Chimera is a browser-based vocal synth that makes every sound by simulating air moving through a throat, mouth, and nose. Drag the tongue, lips, or jaw, or play the keys, and watch a midsagittal 3D vocal tract, glottal airflow, slowed vocal folds, resonance spectrum, and vowel F1/F2 plots respond in real time. Pitch, breath pressure, pressed phonation, and vibrato are all adjustable, with source code on GitHub.
Every sound here is produced by simulating air moving through a throat, mouth and nose.
- ykl
There are a bunch of fun examples on Twitter of things people are doing with Chimera:
https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2118733265372860826
https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119372853502177323
https://x.com/CupOJoseph/status/2119260104641900595
- goodmythical
I could see this being very useful in a number of applications.
Being trans, of course voice affirmation training.
Then singing comes to mind, followed by language learning.
A solid visual demo like this would help give people more than "okay now more like the a in aunt"
- odo1242
There does seem to be a bug - if you drag the tongue to the bottom left-most position, close the lips and bring them back as far as possible, raise the larynx all the way, and lower the soft palate all the way, the synthesizer starts making some kind of inhuman screeching sound (which is definitely not physically accurate).
My best guess for why is that the simulation parameters are set up slightly wrong in a way that is mostly fine for normal simulations (not an audible amount of distortion) but quickly goes off the rails on weird cases like the aforementioned.
Overall a really nice app though; honestly I was kinda blown away by it.
- starshadowx2
I guess this is like a modern version of pink trombone - https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
Also is the name a Teto reference?
- vektormemory
I can't work out how Klaus did the Mr. Sandman version.
Is that a modded version with 4 quartet singers at once?