[PD] obscuring voices while maintaining intelligibility

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 22/09/2011 20:32, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:19 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
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>> On 09/22/2011 07:15 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 5:29 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
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>>>> On 21/09/2011 22:44, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>>>>> I'm trying to come up with a simple voice scrambling technique that
>>>>> leaves voices understandable, but makes them unrecognizable. A key
>>>>> part
>>>>> of this is to make it very hard to reverse the scrambling to make the
>>>>> voice more recognizable
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>>>> http://lorenzosu.altervista.org/temp/dump/voice01.ogg
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>>> That sound has a lot of nice examples, can you share the patch for that?
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>> I was using my own Granita [1] which also has a "play" gadget.
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>>> text-to-speech is interesting, but that requires speech-to-text, which
>>> is error prone and not something you can easily run in realtime on a
>>> phone while processing video. Granular can be heavy too,
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>> True, I hadn't thought you were on resources budget, but indeed you
>> had mentioned CPU usage, Granita for ex.. is quite hungry, although
>> you can lower it's demands (see README). I don't think it would run on
>> a phone.. never tried though.
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>> Lorenzo.
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>> [1] http://lorenzosu.altervista.org/pd/granita/\
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> Granita looks quite nice and polished. You should add it to the
> puredata.info downloads as an app. Here's how:
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> http://puredata.info/docs/sitedocs/AddingYourProjectToDownloads

Finally got round to doing it (correcting some minor things). It's here:
http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/granita-minimalist-granular-synthesis-1

Also put everything on Gitorious, here:
https://gitorious.org/granita/granita

Lorenzo.
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