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Speaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!

TheMcphearson · demo · Watch on YouTube

Music performance & songsComputer vision, speech & NLPMagic, puzzles & curiosities

What it is

A player piano is made to reproduce human speech, here reciting a European Environmental Criminal Court proclamation in German at the 2009 World Venice Forum. This upload adds subtitles so the words become understandable.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as the canonical talking-piano example, uncanny and impressive once you read the captions.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2010, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “This one really got me”

    Impressive piano reproducing speech

    jacquesm, 2015-03 · Recommendation · in “Dot matrix printer playing “Eye of the Tiger” [video]”

  2. “This is a other great example”

    Speech synthesized on acoustic piano, clear once subtitled

    ssfrr, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Sine-wave speech audio encoding”

  3. “THIS is a talking piano”

    A true talking piano example

    gizajob, 2023-08 · Recommendation · in “Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: talking piano, speech synthesis, auditory perception, player piano, music

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