As someone who has previously worked in assistive technology and worked with a lot of folks with moderate to severe speech disorders, I was very excited to discover this TED Talk – “Ruba Patel: Synthetic Voices, As Unique as Fingerprints”. It shows how the organization VocalID.org are creating unique voices for recipients, by combining the
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The PONO Express Rolls In
Neil Young finally got to introduce PONO to the crowds at SXSW this weekend as previously announced. It is indeed simply a hi-res lossless audio player (and music store). Around the time that he first announced that he was working on a new digital device and format, I talked about how for most folks the
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This looks like a lot of fun. Ototo is a small synthesizer which allows you to connect various sensors, including capacitive touch sensors (similar to the touchscreen on a phone or tablet) to control the output. The fun part is that the sensors can be attached to other objects to create new instruments in any
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There’s been some great examples of hacking old hardware to make music recently. This isn’t a new trick (here’s an old post which shows an arduino project to play The Imperial March on a floppy drive for example) but the bar has been raised recently. Marc Almond caught wind of a version of ‘Tainted Love’
Continue reading »Neil Young Likes Digital Music Now…
So Neil Young has announced that his new digital music player will be called PONO and that it will be launched at SXSW this year in March. Looking forward to more details on this, but it sounds like it’s a music player that plays lossless audio, presumably at least at 24bit given his previous disdain
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