While my guitar gently speaks — Todd Fisher, Philo Ventures
Todd Fisher built a music production plugin (JUCE) that transforms a guitar into a speaking instrument.
He connected a microphone to automatic speech recognition and an AI model, which then sends its response back through the guitar strings. The challenge was splitting synthesized speech into individual words—his solution combined two methods for finding word boundaries, plus manual work to get it precisely right. To make the guitar sing, he needed entirely different technology: a pitch detection algorithm, synthesis with vocoder effect, and pre-calculated vocal samples, since direct computation would be too heavy for live performance.
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