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There are a bunch of fun examples on Twitter of things people are doing with Chimera:

https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2118733265372860826

https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119372853502177323

https://x.com/CupOJoseph/status/2119260104641900595

https://x.com/jamesonhodge/status/2119085825509954042

https://x.com/klausbrave/status/2119319095275671582

There does seem to be a bug - if you drag the tongue to the bottom left-most position, close the lips and bring them back as far as possible, raise the larynx all the way, and lower the soft palate all the way, the synthesizer starts making some kind of inhuman screeching sound (which is definitely not physically accurate).

My best guess for why is that the simulation parameters are set up slightly wrong in a way that is mostly fine for normal simulations (not an audible amount of distortion) but quickly goes off the rails on weird cases like the aforementioned.

Overall a really nice app though; honestly I was kinda blown away by it.

This reminds me of that time researchers recreated the voice of the Pharaoh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8qhrURrQbI

I guess this is like a modern version of pink trombone - https://dood.al/pinktrombone/

Also is the name a Teto reference?

I could see this being very useful in a number of applications.

Being trans, of course voice affirmation training.

Then singing comes to mind, followed by language learning.

A solid visual demo like this would help give people more than "okay now more like the a in aunt"

Scrolling is an issue on iOS. Where my finger lands to scroll the page is captured by the head view. Took me a while to figure out how to get passed it.

There was a post to a tweet about this but I also found there's a GitHub repo for the software and this link to it running!

Earlier tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50410728

GitHub repo: https://github.com/jamesondh/chimera-vocal-synth

I learned to throat sing to put my baby to sleep. I'm having fun trying to figure out what all the shapes of the different mouth/throat components I make to get the same sound in the synth.

This is the kind of experience I want on a Monday morning

I can't work out how Klaus did the Mr. Sandman version.

Is that a modded version with 4 quartet singers at once?

That was very intriguing, I was able to tune the false vocal folds and adopt the proper anatomical positions and it did output a proper Khoomei overtone. I wasn't able to find the Kargyraa range, but I managed a decent Sygyt.

Damned impressive setup.

love the op-1 vibe ui

This is weird and fun. Brings me back to one undergraduate class where we used the IPA a lot

My work is done for the day. https://bsky.app/profile/stewleach.bsky.social/post/3mzts6gg...

Time to figure out that damn Australian "o" by flapping the tongue about...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zHeGKQxoOEg

Next step: reverse engineer Freddie Mercury's glottal physiology from queen tracks and fourier analysis, pass it around as a VST plugin.

Please and thank you.

Will make a great vocoder, once a mic is connected to it.

The vocal folds though? Lol

Is it not supposed to work on phone? All I hear is noise and engine keeps loading beyond 100%

Can't whistle?

The eye blink concerns me ...

Can it do throat singing?

I love how creepy 3D view is.

Thanks, I hate it haha.