Voks

Voks is a new family of digital instruments that allow for real-time control and modification of pre-recorded voice signal samples. An instrument based on Voks is made of Voks itself, the synthesis software and a given set of chironomic (hand-driven) interfaces. Rhythm can be accurately controlled thanks to a new methodology, based on syllabic control points. Timing can also be controlled with other methods, including scrubbing and playback speed variation. Pitch, vocal effort, voice tension, apparent vocal tract size, voicing ratio, aperiodicity ratio of the voice samples can be modified thanks to a real-time high-quality vocoder. Voks was developped as a Max/MSP patcher.

Patcher

The patcher is available at the lab repository .

Datasets

Although an example dataset is included in the Max/MSP project, several other pre-annotated speech samples can be used:

Each archive contains the audio recording (.wav) and the associated labelling file (.txt):