@@upumpkin You get 10 unique voice synths, many of which aren’t emulated anywhere else, that’s less than $10 a voice, and they’re all painstakingly coded to properly and accurately emulate the old synths to sound just like them. You can also make them sing. It’s a great deal and great software, $95 is nothing.
Seriously though, you’d think the first computer voice to sing would kinda sound like crap, but no. This sounds pretty damn good, perfectly in pitch and everything. Pretty awesome!
That probably took weeks to compute, running 24/7, back in the days of the IBM 704... But this is still impressive work from an era when 16K of RAM (actually magnetic core memory), and 4000 instructions per second were considered state-of-the-art.
In the late 60s, I went to a tech expo (I think it was in Montreal during a family vacation but cannot recall for certain) where there was a machine that simply said "Coffee". By manipulating certain controls, you could change the speed, pitch, tone, statement vs question, etc.... I spent much of my time there just playing with it. There was also a demonstration of two parabolic dishes, one at each end of the hall. Although it was obviously noisy, you could hear someone whisper into the ring at one end. That was it, engineering was my future!
Hi Padepede... In the late 60s and early 70s the Ontario Science centre in Toronto had a "coffee" machine and also the pair of parabolic dishes. I am not saying they didn't also have the same in Montreal (or perhaps the Ontario Science centre had a travelling show???) but knowing for sure they had these items in Toronto might jog your memory. I too played around with the coffee machine quite a bit!
Ontario Science Centre for sure. That machine was put away for a number of years (at least I couldn't find it), but it's back now. I still remember the voice clearly.
There is a flower within my heart Daisy, Daisy Planted one day by a glancing dart Planted by Daisy Bell Whether she loves me or loves me not Sometimes it's hard to tell Yet I am longing to share the lot A beautiful Daisy Bell Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do I'm half crazy all for the love of you It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do I'm half crazy all for the love of you It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two We will go tandem as man and wife Daisy, Daisy Peddling away down the road of life I and my Daisy Bell When the road's dark, we can both despise Policemen and lamps as well There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes Of beautiful Daisy Bell Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do I'm half crazy all for the love of you It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do I'm half crazy all for the love of you It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two I will stand by you in weal or woe, Daisy, Daisy You'll be the bell witch I'll ring, you'll know Sweet little Daisy Bell You'll take the lead in each trip we take Then if I don't do well I will permit you to use the brake My beautiful little Daisy Bell Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do I'm half crazy all for the love of you It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do I'm half crazy all for the love of you It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two
when i was in college and in a computer class, a tutor of mine produced a cassette tape of this and played it back to us . this is siris grandfather . remember this was done on punched cards . would like to find the full documentary for this .
This is why i want to have a programming job at the computer history museum i always love how old computers and bassicly the basics of all computers work
This is an edited version of the ten-minute-ish 10-inch record that Bell Labs put out in 1963 to show off their speech synth. But it wasn't the first. There was a more basic one at the 1939 New York World's fair, now also posted on You-Tube. Early vocoders were used during WWII and later wars to scramble and send top-brass messages and orders to commanders in the battlefield. A good book on the subject: "How to Wreak A Nice Beach" ("How To Recognize Speech", get it?) by Dave Tompkins.
I agree. Therefore I think, singing is easier for a computer than talking. About singing, a while ago I had a polyphonic singing sequencer. You program the notes as in a normal sequencer but instead of instruments you choose male and female voices and the speech is given under the right notes. This makes the program pretty user friendly. After clicking on play you will here a singer (when you use one note at a time) or a choir (in case of multiple notes simultaneously).
Haunting to have heard this back in the 60s, thinking that computers now had some kind of identify and soul, as most folks didn't understand computers, nor that it literally took weeks to piece together the sounds just right and there was no intelligence in these machines whatsoever.
The funny thing about that is, Equal Temperament (the default tuning use for western fixed-pitch instruments) isn't even that in tune. Octaves and Fifths are OK, but 3rds and their inversions are quite far off. A natural major third (4:5) is 3.86 semitones, while equal temperament gives 4.00 semitones.
WOW, first of all, that is a very realistic text to voice converter, AND FOR THE 704!? I must say that it is a great accomplishment to create a text to voice converting program for such an old machine. I did not know that they even had one in existence. I thought the 704's were all gont (at least the ones in working condition), like the s/360. Very cool, how did you get it to make sound, anyway. The old IBM's had no way to make sound. I have heard of a method that involves hooking a boom box up to one of the computer's lower bits. This is very cool, no matter how it works.
I'm pretty sure this is an old recording from the early '60s, probably made as a demonstration for a symposium or conference. I've heard the Hamlet excerpt before, on Dennis Klatt's history of text-speech synthesis record which was compiled in 1987. Not being any kind of expert, I bet there was some custom hardware involved to hook that computer up to a tape recorder. Wonder how many cubic feet the DAC took up. :-)
This demonstration was in the early 60's. The 704 was programmed to speak using Lisp. Arthur C. Clarke was at Bell Labs visiting a physicist friend when he witnessed this demonstration. He later included this song in 2001: A Space Odyssey when Hal was singing it while being disconnected. The program was written by John Larry Kelly Jr.
It's a compromise though, we use that because otherwise we'd need to retune our instruments to play in different keys, as if you tune one key perfectly you end up making all others out of tune. Thankfully most people don't notice, as it's the only tuning they've ever heard
You'd pretty much have to use their program to do it. I believe the way they did it was to synthesise each sample and then record it to audio tape one at a time, and then play it all back at once on an analogue tape machine. Max Mathews talks about it in one of the interviews he did, it's the one with John Chowning at the museum of computer history. Good interview if you've got a spare couple of hours
The fact that right now you can just enter a prompt on an AI website and it says it in less than a second with a human-like voice is crazy. This must've been mindblowing back then 🤯
I can't imagine how much of a boner technology enthusiast got back in the day when they heard this when today this is trivial and we are creating thinking and decision-making computer.
I don't think I got a boner, but I heard this in physics class in the late 1960s and was duly impressed. I next heard it in the movie 2001 and nearly cracked up laughing on the first note. My date, and everyone else in the theater, would not have been impressed.
it feels more like a computer than the other ones. there is a certain scale from unrealistic to realistic and it only feels right if its near the end or start, if its somewhat realistic but you can still tell that its a computer, it feels very wrong, while this feels normal cos you know its a computer, not a person, and its not really trying to "imitate" anyone, its just trying to talk
HE SAAAWW THE CAT
HE SAaaAAaAW THE CaT
*_HE SAAAAAW THE CAT_*
H E S A W T H E C A T
HE SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW THE CAT
*He sAWWW THE CAT*
I wish there were modern text-to-speech generators that sounded like this, there's such a charm to its "accent".
Found out about chipspeech so that's close enough
@@upumpkin $95 to replicate a sound invented 40 years ago? no thanks.
@@ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr well then pirate it
They should add robot accent option
@@upumpkin You get 10 unique voice synths, many of which aren’t emulated anywhere else, that’s less than $10 a voice, and they’re all painstakingly coded to properly and accurately emulate the old synths to sound just like them. You can also make them sing. It’s a great deal and great software, $95 is nothing.
That feel when a computer from 1961 is a better singer than you...
copied comment fuck you
Hits hard
Kinda what happens when you're literally programmed to sing perfectly on key lol
I'm afraid I can't watch this, Dave.
Seriously though, you’d think the first computer voice to sing would kinda sound like crap, but no. This sounds pretty damn good, perfectly in pitch and everything. Pretty awesome!
Very realistic Voice at 0:38 :D
That is a real voice
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killeverything200 Actually, it's a realistic Voice but also a real one.
I got the joke first time :p
;)
FINALLY, old tech that was actually impressive!
0:49 "Hatsune Miku I am your father"
Most headcanons say that IBM 7094 is Miku’s grandfather.
"......I'mmmmmmm haaaaaalf craaaaaazzzzzzy, all for the love of youuuuuuuuuu....".....Love that bit, love analog tape fatness!
That probably took weeks to compute, running 24/7, back in the days of the IBM 704... But this is still impressive work from an era when 16K of RAM (actually magnetic core memory), and 4000 instructions per second were considered state-of-the-art.
Can you imagine the stress of troubleshooting. Uh oh something didn’t work quick everyone pick 20 things to check
In the late 60s, I went to a tech expo (I think it was in Montreal during a family vacation but cannot recall for certain) where there was a machine that simply said "Coffee". By manipulating certain controls, you could change the speed, pitch, tone, statement vs question, etc.... I spent much of my time there just playing with it. There was also a demonstration of two parabolic dishes, one at each end of the hall. Although it was obviously noisy, you could hear someone whisper into the ring at one end. That was it, engineering was my future!
Hi Padepede... In the late 60s and early 70s the Ontario Science centre in Toronto had a "coffee" machine and also the pair of parabolic dishes. I am not saying they didn't also have the same in Montreal (or perhaps the Ontario Science centre had a travelling show???) but knowing for sure they had these items in Toronto might jog your memory. I too played around with the coffee machine quite a bit!
We probably were in Toronto, my memory is fuzzy on that (it would have been a much closer drive from Detroit). I can still "hear" it saying coffee :-)
Ontario Science Centre for sure. That machine was put away for a number of years (at least I couldn't find it), but it's back now. I still remember the voice clearly.
Oh yeah!! They had that at Science World in Vancouver!!
I find this so amazing! It's almost beautiful in a weird way!
I'm curious where one can find the talking and singing voice of the IBM 704. I know Chipspeech has the singing voice.
Wild Woody there is a video:
th-cam.com/video/41U78QP8nBk/w-d-xo.html
Wild Woody Late I know, but I believe it has the talkloid as well!
Its 704 voice but each title is 7094
Aw he sounds so good, so earnest!
Thanks
he prottecc
he attac
but most importantly
he saw the cat
the singing is adorable
Microsoft sam's grandfather
That might actually be SAM for C64/Atari
SYSTEM_EDITOR.1995 That would be the father.
Microsoft Sam can't sing like this IBM 704's voice...
SAM is not Microsoft.
@@Rhythmattica I've been lied to...
The great grandfather of Vocaloid lol
This doesn't belong to the vocaliod community. They never knew a shit about vocaliod.
@@SquiddoSquid r/whoosh
Vocaloid doesn't belong to the IBM community. They never knew a shit about IBM.
@@dava_arvarabi r/whoosh
@@elpaletero123 that's not how you do a fucking woosh, r/whoosh
It all sounds strangely sad and melancholic, don't know why
Why i love that sound?
There is a flower within my heart
Daisy, Daisy
Planted one day by a glancing dart
Planted by Daisy Bell
Whether she loves me or loves me not
Sometimes it's hard to tell
Yet I am longing to share the lot
A beautiful Daisy Bell
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
We will go tandem as man and wife
Daisy, Daisy
Peddling away down the road of life
I and my Daisy Bell
When the road's dark, we can both despise
Policemen and lamps as well
There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
I will stand by you in weal or woe, Daisy, Daisy
You'll be the bell witch I'll ring, you'll know
Sweet little Daisy Bell
You'll take the lead in each trip we take
Then if I don't do well
I will permit you to use the brake
My beautiful little Daisy Bell
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two
the machine shown is an IBM 7094 (console has 4 additional registers, for its 7 versus 3 original index registers in the 709 7090
Yes
Daisy bell, one of my favorite songs
Best moment in computer history
when i was in college and in a computer class, a tutor of mine produced a cassette tape of this and played it back to us . this is siris grandfather . remember this was done on punched cards . would like to find the full documentary for this .
Wow, I didn't know HAL 9000's grandpa was a pop star
I like how some of the first words said by a computer was 'He saw the cat'
Wow, that was actually really good.
This is why i want to have a programming job at the computer history museum i always love how old computers and bassicly the basics of all computers work
better than tomodachi life
Nyarome! No wayyy
Hold up- ur right 💀
the fact youre not wrong 😭😭
the song sounds so cute
Also the Vocaloid's predecessor
Siri's predecessor*
+WhatsYerFace344 Initial release of SIRI: October 4th, 2011
Initial release of Vocaloid: January 14, 2004
Vocaloid wins.
Jack Richards alright, you got me. my mistake
+WhatsYerFace344 It's all in good fun! c:
This is an edited version of the ten-minute-ish 10-inch record that Bell Labs put out in 1963 to show off their speech synth. But it wasn't the first. There was a more basic one at the 1939 New York World's fair, now also posted on You-Tube. Early vocoders were used during WWII and later wars to scramble and send top-brass messages and orders to commanders in the battlefield. A good book on the subject: "How to Wreak A Nice Beach" ("How To Recognize Speech", get it?) by Dave Tompkins.
When's his album coming out?
Not 11 years later that's for sure
No 'd', 't' or 'c'. But it still managed intonation and other vocal skills. Amazing for its time.Thanks. :-)
Dave, my mind is going.
I agree. Therefore I think, singing is easier for a computer than talking.
About singing, a while ago I had a polyphonic singing sequencer. You program the notes as in a normal sequencer but instead of instruments you choose male and female voices and the speech is given under the right notes. This makes the program pretty user friendly. After clicking on play you will here a singer (when you use one note at a time) or a choir (in case of multiple notes simultaneously).
hey the computer singing "daisy daisy" at 0:48 sounds alot like most pop singers nowadays
Daisy, daisy, gimme dat ass
siri meet your great great great grandfather .:)
lol
Kraftwerk?
He saw the cat :O
He saw the cat, he totally saw the cat
I love the sound, thank you
Singing is easy because you program the pitch and the length of each note. In case of talking this is way more difficult.
When you realized that programming is art
Haunting to have heard this back in the 60s, thinking that computers now had some kind of identify and soul, as most folks didn't understand computers, nor that it literally took weeks to piece together the sounds just right and there was no intelligence in these machines whatsoever.
The funny thing about that is, Equal Temperament (the default tuning use for western fixed-pitch instruments) isn't even that in tune. Octaves and Fifths are OK, but 3rds and their inversions are quite far off. A natural major third (4:5) is 3.86 semitones, while equal temperament gives 4.00 semitones.
John madden
The singing IS TIME TRAVELING BONZI
Love this because it’s made a long time a go
And he sounded like a pirate at 0:32
WOW, first of all, that is a very realistic text to voice converter, AND FOR THE 704!? I must say that it is a great accomplishment to create a text to voice converting program for such an old machine. I did not know that they even had one in existence. I thought the 704's were all gont (at least the ones in working condition), like the s/360. Very cool, how did you get it to make sound, anyway. The old IBM's had no way to make sound. I have heard of a method that involves hooking a boom box up to one of the computer's lower bits. This is very cool, no matter how it works.
I'm pretty sure this is an old recording from the early '60s, probably made as a demonstration for a symposium or conference. I've heard the Hamlet excerpt before, on Dennis Klatt's history of text-speech synthesis record which was compiled in 1987. Not being any kind of expert, I bet there was some custom hardware involved to hook that computer up to a tape recorder. Wonder how many cubic feet the DAC took up. :-)
This demonstration was in the early 60's. The 704 was programmed to speak using Lisp. Arthur C. Clarke was at Bell Labs visiting a physicist friend when he witnessed this demonstration. He later included this song in 2001: A Space Odyssey when Hal was singing it while being disconnected. The program was written by John Larry Kelly Jr.
The start of edm music
Dandy is that you?
It's a compromise though, we use that because otherwise we'd need to retune our instruments to play in different keys, as if you tune one key perfectly you end up making all others out of tune. Thankfully most people don't notice, as it's the only tuning they've ever heard
He saw the cat 🐈
Awesome.
1:40 tik tok: i think im bout to steal 😤😤😤
And here, vocaloid was born
Oh wow ... yeah ... a friend of mine would get a kick out of this. :)
I like it better than any people singing
Especially Justin Bieber, i think.
You'd pretty much have to use their program to do it. I believe the way they did it was to synthesise each sample and then record it to audio tape one at a time, and then play it all back at once on an analogue tape machine. Max Mathews talks about it in one of the interviews he did, it's the one with John Chowning at the museum of computer history. Good interview if you've got a spare couple of hours
The fact that right now you can just enter a prompt on an AI website and it says it in less than a second with a human-like voice is crazy. This must've been mindblowing back then 🤯
Miku's Grandpa
IBM 704 walked so that Vocaloid could run
0:00 The socially awkward kid who goes on a date for the first time.
When old computers sing like this, it sounds so soothing to me. It's weird I know but I just had to say that.
I think the same thing actually
When he did Hamlet from Shakespeare I really felt that
He saw the cat!
This gives me “Faith” vibes
Is there any VST instrument that imitates this machine or exactly this way of singing ? THANKS!
I can't let you do that, dave
Steven Hawking is trapped in there!! :P
I can't imagine how much of a boner technology enthusiast got back in the day when they heard this when today this is trivial and we are creating thinking and decision-making computer.
I don't think I got a boner, but I heard this in physics class in the late 1960s and was duly impressed. I next heard it in the movie 2001 and nearly cracked up laughing on the first note. My date, and everyone else in the theater, would not have been impressed.
Digital speech synthesis with vacuum tubes!
OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE
"He saw the cat" The first lolcat?
Daft punk should remix this
Anyone know if it's possible to do anything like this on Csound? Or a program of the like?
Its Hatsune Miku's Great great Grandpa!
Dr. Sbaitso lives!
Did anyone first thought the computer was going to sing "give me your ass?)
Over 50 years later and still better english than any Vocaloid out there
To be fair they are mostly Japanese 😅
English software has btter eng than a non-eng one?
Mind. Blown.
hey. its calculons great great great..... ancestor
i hear this stuff in my head
Raw vocal 0:49
Auto-Tune 1:41
thought I accidentally listened to Black Moth Super Rainbow at the end.
Now say “B-17 Bomber!”
My phone vibrates he spits too much facts
I sung worse than a computer from the 60's
t h a n k s f o r l i s t e n i n g.
if i heard that in my sleep before feeling a very s h a r p pain in my abdomen i would die
Me too
THIS ROBOT IS MY THERAPIST RN HOLY MOLY ROLLY PULLY
I'm making an UTAU who sounds exactly like this and has a talk ability as well as his singing
Big AL?
*HE SAW THE CAT*
*HE SAAAW THE CAT*
*HE SAW THE CAT*
Hi, Dandy 704!
Darth Voder!
The best pun, that like nobody I know irl would get dammit
Unpopular opinion: the early computer voices are better than the ones now
it feels more like a computer than the other ones. there is a certain scale from unrealistic to realistic and it only feels right if its near the end or start, if its somewhat realistic but you can still tell that its a computer, it feels very wrong, while this feels normal cos you know its a computer, not a person, and its not really trying to "imitate" anyone, its just trying to talk
@@ImXyper 100% agree with this
That uncomfortable spot between realistic and not is known as the "uncanny valley"
@@dalehayden3830 yep
I'm afraid I can't do that dave
A god damn computer can sing better than me
Same