old.hikari3.ch will be permanantly shut down soon

>>13368 i love you hikari!!!

>>13378 Hikarin!

>>13378 You don't even know him. Stop lying to make him feel better.

>>13380 do we know each other??????????????

>>13381 Internet friends arent real.

I have a British accent In all seriousness though, I fumble and mutter a lot in casual exchanges, especially in my mother tongue. I can roughly tell when a social cue is dropped, just can't grasp the words and cultural sentiment to respond to it properly. It is easier for me to react to such cues in English, but even then I'm not what you'd call "socially fluent". It's a bit uncanny because this isn't a case of being raised multiculturally, by migrant parents in an English-speaking country, or what have you. I just taught myself English from a very early age, and I do mean like from 7 or 8 yrs old (TV and internet, of course). In spite of the aforementioned, I can project my voice clearly during presentations no matter the language, so it only applies to casual situations. I don't think this is considered a speech impediment as such, but figured some hikarins might relate to this. The notion of finding it easier to communicate certain things in acquired languages is understood and not uncommon. I just think my case leans toward the more extreme end where my native fluency is effectively eroded.

>>13325 I gross at 90% of standalone expressions in my native language, like what do you mean "i love you" , bitch you sound like a hog in heat

oh hey this thread is still up >>13321 >very low verbal iq Well it greatly depends! verbal iq mainly relates to how you process the intake of language, so low verbal IQ does impact expression. However Alogia is something that happens with language production and people with alogia tend to be able to understand language like "normal" ""people"". Id say the best rule of thumb to know if you have alogia is if your able to understand something down to the dot but have difficulties expressing it, say for example if you have difficult times on sudden questions versus paced conversation.

>>13329 true, relatable

>>11979 > Alogia i've read about it, it's so interesting but does it affect only your speech (as opposed to writing)? also you seem like you got officially diagnosed, if so i would like to know how tiring the process & treatment were, because i'm still debating getting medical help

(continued from previous post) Anyway, onto the main topic of this post, which is what I just noticed about the figure in Bonada's thesis (which was in turn copied from "Improvements to a Sample-Concatenation Based Singing Voice Synthesizer"), picrel. At the top, we see the original spectrum and its harmonic envelope. In the middle plot, we see an intermediate visualization of peaks after being moved, but before equalization. Notably, there now exists one discontinuity due to one peak being used twice. In the bottom plot, we see the rendered spectrum after equalization. Notably, there is still only one discontinuity in the spectrum. The proposed technique eliminates gaps in the spectrum, but not discontinuities, because the SPP algorithm, as described, regardless of the rendering variant, scales all the bins in each region, which would produce a discontinuity at the boundary between regions. Instead, in the bottom figure, the amount of scaling appears to vary non-linearly, such that it is continuous. This is especially apparent since the figure shows a dotted line representing the spectrum before equalization. You could say that this is just how the figure was drawn, however it is highly consistent across the whole figure; furthermore, it is consistent with other papers and the descriptions in some of the patents seem to suggest that the amplitude discontinuities may be solved. Based on this, I have a hypothesis on how the non-uniform amplitude scaling may have been implemented. The process would be to create a first envelope of the harmonic peaks before transformation; create a second envelope of the harmonic peaks after frequency shifting, but before equalization; and finally scale each bin based on the ration of the first envelope to the second envelope. Although I have not tested it, looking at the figure visually, the proposed procedure would seem to match very closely, assuming a smoothing interpolation. Furthermore, it may also explain why the intermediate stage that shows the spectrum after shifting, but before equalization, is explicitly shown. Such a thing is not actually created by the SPP algorithm as described, but it does make sense to show for the proposed non-uniform amplitude scaling. Finally, in theory, this procedure would not produce any additional amplitude discontinuities, further consistent with the figure. I will implement this idea as a variant in my existing SPP algorithm, which has already been implemented such that multiple variants (and combinations thereof) can exist in the same procedure (using preprocessor flags). Furthermore, I will consider the possibility that the same procedure is also used for the unwrapped phase envelope.

So you may know that I have been working on this project to attempt to recreate the VOCALOID2 synthesis engine. Well I have a major update. So yesterday I was talking about the SPP variant. As I said, I already had an SPP implementation. But it only implemented the basic approach, and only had a few configurable options. Also, I never actually tested it. So last night I had big trouble sleeping, so I only got about 3.5 hours of sleep. Nonetheless, for most of the day, I have been working on implementing every conceivable SPP variation. Actually, I basically wrote if from scratch. So in total I've written about 1,000 lines of codes. Actually, this new version only has pitch transposition, and no longer implements time scaling, timbre scaling and equalization. While this sounds like a bad thing, it's actually good. I want to isolate the basic algorithm first and make that as close as possible to VOCALOID2. The interaction with those other transforms adds additional uncertainty and complexity, so I have skipped on them for now. The code still some stuff to be done, and certainly could use refactoring (although arguably I should wait until after I am sure exactly what is used before doing so, so I can collapse the code first). It's basically this insane hellscape of preprocessor directives that let me control every variation of the algorithm I could think of. Anyway, after fixing a few compile errors and outright crashes/NaN explosions, it actually worked first try. I loaded a database sample from the VOCALOID2 database and fed it in, and the whole pipeline actually worked first try. The sample used was a stationary, but for actual comparison, I will probably use an articulation instead. This is because some patents suggest a special type of whole-sample spectral concatenation interpolation that applies to stationarys. Here is my prototype type code: http://up.heyaoi.net/src/6335.c And here are the configuration parameters I used: #define TEST_SPP_WINDOW_TYPE SPP_WINDOW_2048 #define TEST_PITCH_TRANSPOSITION_TYPE PITCH_TRANSPOSITION_SCALE #define TEST_SPP_USE_PHASE_DISCONTINUITY_HYSTERESIS SPP_USE_PHASE_DISCONTINUITY_HYSTERESIS_NO // Until it's fully implemented #define TEST_SPP_INTERPOLATION_TYPE SPP_INTERPOLATION_SPLINE #define TEST_SPP_INTERPOLATION_TYPE2 SPP_INTERPOLATION2_POLAR #define TEST_SPP_INTERPOLATION_TYPE3 SPP_INTERPOLATION3_PHASE_UNWRAPPED #define TEST_SPP_INTERPOLATION_TYPE4 SPP_INTERPOLATION4_LOGARITHMIC #define TEST_SPP_PHASE_PROPGATION_TIME SPP_PHASE_PROPGATION_TIME_AFTER #define TEST_SPP_PHASE_PROPGATION_METHOD SPP_PHASE_PROPGATION_METHOD_LINEAR #define TEST_SPP_HARMONIC_AMPLITUDE_ENVELOPE_INTERPOLATION_TYPE SPP_HARMONIC_AMPLITUDE_ENVELOPE_INTERPOLATION_SPLINE #define TEST_SPP_HARMONIC_PHASE_ENVELOPE_INTERPOLATION_TYPE SPP_HARMONIC_PHASE_ENVELOPE_INTERPOLATION_SPLINE #define TEST_SPP_PEAK_PICKING_METHOD SPP_PEAK_PICKING_BONADA2008 #define TEST_SPP_SYNTHESIS_HARMONIC_DISTRIBUTION SPP_SYNTHESIS_HARMONIC_DISTRIBUTION_IDEAL #define TEST_SPP_ANALYSIS_HARMONIC_DISTRIBUTION SPP_ANALYSIS_HARMONIC_DISTRIBUTION_IDEAL #define TEST_SPP_PEAK_PICKING_CLOSEST_TYPE SPP_PEAK_PICKING_CLOSEST_ROUND #define TEST_SPP_REGION_DELIMITATION_METHOD SPP_REGION_DELIMITATION_MIDDLE #define TEST_SPP_REGION_RENDERING_STRATEGY SPP_REGION_RENDERING_STRATEGY_4E_FREQUENCY_WARPING #define TEST_SPP_REGION_RENDERING_ORDER TEST_SPP_REGION_RENDERING_ORDER_FLOOR_FLOOR #define TEST_SPP_REGION_RENDERING_STRATEGY_4E_FREQUENCY_WARPING_SCALING_TYPE SPP_REGION_RENDERING_STRATEGY_4E_FREQUENCY_WARPING_TYPE_NONLINEAR_SCALING #define SPP_PEAK_PICKING_BONADA2008_VALLEY_THRESHOLD logf(FROM_DECIBELS(15.0f))

>>13374 As you can see, I used the frequency-warping variant of SPP. Here is the original audio (technically, it was also processed with SPP; but the pitch transposition factor was 1.0, and the transform should be near-lossless): http://up.heyaoi.net/src/6336.wav Now here is a 1.5 factor (+702 semitone) upwards pitch transposition with frequency-warping SPP: http://up.heyaoi.net/src/6337.wav Spectrogram: http://up.heyaoi.net/src/6338.png By comparison, here is the same transform with the original/basic SPP technique: http://up.heyaoi.net/src/6339.wav Spectrogram: http://up.heyaoi.net/src/6340.png The difference is subtle, but I feel like the frequency-warping has a slightly more "VOCALOID" timbre to it. Actually both do to me, but that one especially so. Let me know what you think! This makes me feel like I'm onto something, although I have not done objective tests yet, although I hope to do those soon. Also, here is an extreme pitch transposition (3x). Frequency-warping: http://up.heyaoi.net/src/6341.wav Regular SPP: http://up.heyaoi.net/src/6342.wav About the previously discussed idea from the figure image about the non-linear amplitude scaling - I have yet to implement and test that. I am starting to have some doubts about it though, for example because around the true discontinuity, the different sides appear in opposite order after equalization, which would not happen according to my explanation. Furthermore, after very close inspection of many figures, I believe that the curves are most likely hand-drawn now, or at least hand-edited, whereas before I thought they had been imported. Let me know what you think!

>>13375 What are these Heyaoi links

It is supposed to be hey uri. That is where the files/figures are hosted.

Dirty foot.

>>13369 Finally, something good to eat.

>>13326 your wife? but shes with me right now

>>13327 your wife?? that's my wife! get your own!!

If she's yours then why did I see her in MY computer?

>old.hikari3.ch will be permanantly shut down soon I didn't even know it was there, but I do miss the old hikari look.

>>13364 There is a site theme for that. The theme selector on the sidebar has a classic option.

I mostly listen to whatever my gf buys off of bandcamp that I can leech off of desu

>>12088 what does she buy off bandcamp? also why is that your main way of acquiring music

>>12090 Mostly some variety of electrronic stuff. She's been pretty into minimalist synth lately in particular. I tend to mostly listen to music like this just cuz I know she has good taste and if I ever want an album to put on I can grab smth from her account since she buys lots of music. I do also use soulseek to download other music tho...

I likes the electronics music are fun

Is the thread op stuck at the top of the homepage new posts forever? lol

>>13351 Well, it is technically the newest post on the site

>>13351 that's actually hilarious lolol

>>13299 J-JOHN TITOR!???!?!?!

>>13350 Mikuru-chan is an angel

Wish I was you right now, it's so fucking hot right now.

>>13348 aussiefag.

>>13349 It was 18° in Canberra today, that's cold

>>13094 im sippin on some A 'n' dubya

>>13126 really, a scientist's fuel its my favorit 2! esspecialy the vanilla float flavour

>>13330 actual coke floats (coke with scoops of vanilla ice cream in it) fucking suck though.

>>13338 honestly i have never had a float made with coke. root beer just seems so perfect for the job.

>>13345 Not that anon but I tried to put a scoop of vanilla ice cream into my Coca Cola once, taste was insanely bad and it also made some sort of weird grayish foam, I don't know if my ice cream was just low quality but it truly sucked Also, Dr. Pepper Strawberry and Cream is the best soda flavor I ever tasted

Dis nyagan 4 reel?

>>13337 nice gigal33t