steve wrote:RamonFHerrera wrote:At the time, circa 1990, there was no such thing as object oriented, but my remedy was to learn Java (and currently C#) on my own.
I doubt that you were learning Java in 1990
(1) Hence the qualifier "circa".
(2) How can you be so sure?? Maybe "Ramon F Herrera" is an alias for James Gosling?
Okay, enough wise cracks... I have learned that people tend not to read long posts and thus try to summarize --- Sometimes I overdo it (not unlike Noise Removal techniques). My point is that I got out of college with a terrible (in my mind) deficiency: Object Oriented Programming, which was a matter of research then. Placed that in my "Things to Learn" long list.
Which brings me to this point...
What bugs me terribly is the state of the art of noise reduction/removal. It is awful ! I was saying to myself: "How is it possible that a program written by all those Russian geniuses (
Sound Cleaner II) or MIT hotshots (
iZotope RX4) can produce such unnatural output? Don't they know that -save for Stephen Hawking- the vocal chords are incapable of generating such voice?"
Like a good chef (which always takes a little taste now and then), shouldn't Voice Removal include a Voice Recognition phase? Since this is far from being interactive, the computer can be left all night, in a loop:
• Apply these settings x=1.23, y=3.45, z=56dB, come up with a new tentative show
• Perform Voice Recognition on the result
• Does this sound like something uttered by the human throat?
• If negative, go back, try a new set of parameters.
These are the kinds of questions in which I am interested.
My inquiry about books (I am pretty much interested in voice, non-singing) stands.
-Ramon
