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Audio
Bookmarks
The World of Harmonics — with Coffee, Guitar, and Synth
A myNoise vlog episode by Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon exploring harmonics through coffee, guitar, and synthesizer. Personal and technical exploration of sound from the creator of myNoise.
ChezWizper
ChezWizper is a GitHub project by silvabyte, likely a local Whisper-based speech transcription tool. Part of the growing ecosystem of local AI tools that run OpenAI's Whisper model on-device for private transcription.
TorToiSe TTS: Architectural Design Document
The architectural design document for TorToiSe TTS — James Betker's highly capable open-source voice cloning and text-to-speech system. Explains the multi-model pipeline combining autoregressive and diffusion components that made it state-of-the-art in 2022.
Uberduck: Voice Cloning and Text-to-Speech
Uberduck is a text-to-speech and voice cloning platform that gained early viral traction through celebrity voice imitations and rap generation. Early consumer-facing example of generative audio before ElevenLabs dominated the space.
ABX: Blind Audio Comparison Testing
ABX by jaakkopasanen is an open-source tool for conducting blind A/B/X audio comparison tests — the gold standard for objectively evaluating whether two audio signals are perceptibly different. Used for testing headphone EQ curves, codecs, and audio processing.
Neural Instrument Cloning from Very Few Samples
Research on cloning musical instrument sounds using neural audio synthesis from very few samples — few-shot timbre transfer. Relevant to AI music generation tools and the question of how much training data audio models need.
Automatic Sample Layout (VAE)
Kyle McDonald's EYEO 2016 demonstration of automatic audio sample organization using a Variational Autoencoder — the VAE learns a latent representation of sounds and arranges them in 2D space so similar samples cluster together. An early application of generative models to creative tools.
Digital Sound Processing Tutorial for the Braindead
Olli Niemitalo's 1998 beginner DSP tutorial covering filters, FFT, interpolation, and audio synthesis techniques. Honest about its approximations but remains a clear, practical entry point into audio signal processing.