babbletron

The babbletron is an interactive speech simulator built for Maker Faire.  Using the record and play buttons, a user can construct a phrase by chaining allophones together and play them back to get an understanding on how basic synthetic speech works.

Allophones are basic constructs of speech (phonemes) that are encoded as voice parameters and blend from one to another over time to provide a smooth continuous speech pattern.

Using a foot pedal the user can change the pitch dynamically to have babbletron sing it playback as a song. A small 16x16 matrix display mouths the allophones as they play.

tweaker

Tweaker is a Java based applicaton program that utilzes the music synthesis component of the ginsing board.  You can create you own custom sound effects by adding basic synthsisis blocks together into a preset that can be stored and played and blended together.

airmonica

The airmonica is an intuitive free space musical instrument that uses a 3D accelerometer to plays notes in selected key, just like a harmonica. It also has a simple arpeggiator with tempo controls to help train the insturmentalist on pitch and timing.

ginsing

The ginsing is an Arduino shield that provides realtime sytnhetic voice and music synthesis using a simple to understand API library.

The shield contains a line-level 1/8" output as well as a low power LM386 style amplifier for direct speker connection. Standard headers allow stacking of additional shields.

The ginsing shield is packaged as a do it yourself kit requiring on basic soldering skills and IC sockets to make it easy for beginners to build their own hardware compatible with Arduino.