Can speech be turned into music notes?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion explores the concept of converting speech into music notes, touching on the technical aspects of pitch estimation and its relevance in tonal languages. It includes perspectives on speech recognition technology and creative applications in storytelling.

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  • Exploratory, Technical explanation, Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants mention the musical notes associated with speech, including pitch variations and their representation in music.
  • One participant discusses "f0 estimation" in speech recognition, highlighting its importance in tonal languages like Chinese, where pitch can alter meaning.
  • Another participant connects the concept to autotuning technology, explaining its role in mapping pitch to musical notes.
  • A creative idea is presented about a character in a web comic who communicates through music notes, suggesting a novel application of the discussed concepts.
  • A humorous remark is made regarding the implications of pitch on vocabulary in tonal languages, reflecting on the potential effects of illness on speech.

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Participants express interest in the topic and share related ideas, but there is no explicit consensus on the feasibility or implications of converting speech to music notes.

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The discussion includes assumptions about the technical processes involved in pitch estimation and the creative interpretations of speech as music, which may not be fully explored or defined.

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Individuals interested in speech recognition technology, music theory, and creative storytelling may find the discussion relevant.

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Beat 8 4 1 half quarter eighth ...

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Three different hertz variances, this may be in the wrong thread.

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Yes. In speech recognition (my line of work) it's called "f0 estimation" (f0 being the base pitch), and in fact for tonal languages like Chinese the f0 is very important as the pitch changes the meaning of a word.
Once you got the pitch, you can just map it to the closest note.

Don't know if you know of autotuning, but that's exactly what autotuners do.
 
Ah that's so cool! thank you! So I have this character idea for a web comic who would speak English but the reader can only see the music notes because it's an alien, and now what I thought would be a too far fetched idea, is possible. I have heard of Auto Tune before but I didn't realize that's how it's done.
 
Pitch changing the meaning of the words in China, gosh so your vocabulary would be shorter if you had a cold ha ha.
 

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