Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Language Design / Conlang: do you know any examples in Sound Art or Arts in general?

2012-02-19 Thread Mathieu Bouchard

Le 2012-01-21 à 22:49:00, Andy Farnell a écrit :

Actually I had a little play around with it since Matju made me use 
mbrola


But did you get IPA to work, in the end ?

And you didn't explain about the UTF problem.

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Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Language Design / Conlang: do you know any examples in Sound Art or Arts in general?

2012-02-01 Thread massimiliano samsa
Andy your suggestion meets pretty well what I have in mind, I'll be
experimenting with the combination of tools you mentioned.
Thanks!

2012/1/22 Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca

 Le 2012-01-21 à 20:11:00, Andy Farnell a écrit :


  Is that what Francophone Canadian sounds like!! ?


 It's one quite common accent (apart from the [r] mistake). People would
 tend to always use [ʀ] instead of [r], or always [r] instead of [ʀ].
 Overall, speech tends to range between this and what's listed in the
 dictionary, depending on how informal the speech is.


  Anyway I can't hear it using espeak or mbrola because not sure how to
 translate UTF16 IPA into phoneme mnemonics, eg this doesn't work:


 You mean that there are people who use UTF16 on unix outside of java
 context ?

 I thought that everyone on unix was moving to UTF8 instead (except java).

 Try iconv.


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Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Language Design / Conlang: do you know any examples in Sound Art or Arts in general?

2012-01-22 Thread Mathieu Bouchard

Le 2012-01-21 à 20:11:00, Andy Farnell a écrit :


Is that what Francophone Canadian sounds like!! ?


It's one quite common accent (apart from the [r] mistake). People would 
tend to always use [ʀ] instead of [r], or always [r] instead of [ʀ]. 
Overall, speech tends to range between this and what's listed in the 
dictionary, depending on how informal the speech is.


Anyway I can't hear it using espeak or mbrola because not sure how to 
translate UTF16 IPA into phoneme mnemonics, eg this doesn't work:


You mean that there are people who use UTF16 on unix outside of java 
context ?


I thought that everyone on unix was moving to UTF8 instead (except java).

Try iconv.

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[PD] [PD-announce] Language Design / Conlang: do you know any examples in Sound Art or Arts in general?

2012-01-21 Thread massimiliano samsa
Hi, I'm going to do a project of language design for the Sound Design
course of of my Art School.
*Language Design* is the creation of an artificial language like it
happens, for example, for the aliens of some sc-fi movies. (Famous examples
are the aliens in District 9 and Chewbecca in Star Wars (of course ;)). It
is also called conlang (constructed language).
The final work should be some kind of a speaking installation, where the
speech generated is an artificial language interacting with the audience.

My plans are to collect a database of sounds/phonems from human speeches of
different languages, in addiction to synthetic sounds, and find a way to
re-arrange them on the fly when triggered by an interaction with the
audience, in order to create sentences.

*Besides the technical sides, my main focus now is to know examples of
artificial language design in Sound Art or Arts in general.*

No videogames or films involved ;)

Any help or suggestion is much appreciated!!

Max
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Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Language Design / Conlang: do you know any examples in Sound Art or Arts in general?

2012-01-21 Thread Andy Farnell

I would combine a pass-phrase generator with a text to speech convertor
that attempts best guesses.

Pass-phrase generators (there are many around in Perl Java and Python) create
plausible sounding, and hence mnemonic constructions like 

toof dang plep blug 

You can usually filter for only non-words

Since most TTS are recognisable voices and have human intonation
a phoneme concatenation speech synthesiser like MBROLA 
would be good for more alien effects after a little ring modulation.
You will need to use IPA symbols as your alphabet and maybe tweak the 
phrase algorithm in order to avoid the problem of Kang from Rigel VII, 
in order to pronounce it correctly I would have to remove your tongue.



On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:11:49 +0100
massimiliano samsa puredatamassimili...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi, I'm going to do a project of language design for the Sound Design
 course of of my Art School.
 *Language Design* is the creation of an artificial language like it
 happens, for example, for the aliens of some sc-fi movies. (Famous examples
 are the aliens in District 9 and Chewbecca in Star Wars (of course ;)). It
 is also called conlang (constructed language).
 The final work should be some kind of a speaking installation, where the
 speech generated is an artificial language interacting with the audience.
 
 My plans are to collect a database of sounds/phonems from human speeches of
 different languages, in addiction to synthetic sounds, and find a way to
 re-arrange them on the fly when triggered by an interaction with the
 audience, in order to create sentences.
 
 *Besides the technical sides, my main focus now is to know examples of
 artificial language design in Sound Art or Arts in general.*
 
 No videogames or films involved ;)
 
 Any help or suggestion is much appreciated!!
 
 Max


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Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Language Design / Conlang: do you know any examples in Sound Art or Arts in general?

2012-01-21 Thread Mathieu Bouchard

Le 2012-01-21 à 13:34:00, Andy Farnell a écrit :


You will need to use IPA symbols as your alphabet


ʒa.dɔː la pe i e ʃtʀuːv sʌ tʀɛ kuːl kə tɑ̃ paʀl sʏː pe.de.lɪst !

mɛ ɑ̃ pra.tsɪk ʒe pʌ tɛl.mɑ̃ lɔ.ka.zjɔ̃ dmɑ̃ sɛʀ.vɪː .

œ̃ ʒʊː pø.taɛtʀ ...

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Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Language Design / Conlang: do you know any examples in Sound Art or Arts in general?

2012-01-21 Thread Mathieu Bouchard


the «r» in my last text was a mistake and was meant to be a «ʀ» of course.

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Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Language Design / Conlang: do you know any examples in Sound Art or Arts in general?

2012-01-21 Thread Andy Farnell

Is that what Francophone Canadian sounds like!! ?

Anyway I can't hear it using espeak or mbrola
because not sure how to translate UTF16 IPA into
phoneme mnemonics, eg this doesn't work:

$ espeak -v fr -b 1 [[ʒa.dɔː la pe i e ʃtʀuːv sʌ tʀɛ kuːl kə tɑ̃ paʀl sʏː 
pe.de.lɪst mɛ ɑ̃ pra.tsɪk ʒe pʌ tɛl.mɑ̃ lɔ.ka.zjɔ̃ dmɑ̃ sɛʀ.vɪː œ̃ ʒʊː pø.taɛtʀ 
]] 

Andy



On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:48:50 -0500 (EST)
Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote:

 Le 2012-01-21 à 13:34:00, Andy Farnell a écrit :
 
  You will need to use IPA symbols as your alphabet
 
 ʒa.dɔː la pe i e ʃtʀuːv sʌ tʀɛ kuːl kə tɑ̃ paʀl sʏː pe.de.lɪst !
 
 mɛ ɑ̃ pra.tsɪk ʒe pʌ tɛl.mɑ̃ lɔ.ka.zjɔ̃ dmɑ̃ sɛʀ.vɪː .
 
 œ̃ ʒʊː pø.taɛtʀ ...
 
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