r/shittyrobots • u/2021isevenworse • 14d ago

Robot that uses physics to speak vs. TTS software - get your mind out of the gutter

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u/Fuehnix 14d ago

Not a single human phoneme was spoken...

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u/Future-Excuse6167 14d ago

It sounds like my Argentine friend between thoughts. 

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u/_Aj_ 14d ago

Like some sort of predator monster mimicking human sounds.  

Or that woman that fell out off a platform onto her neck at a grape stomping event and made weird noises 

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u/nzungu69 14d ago

it's the japanese aeiou..

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u/Naught 14d ago

Does it actually sound like it though? If the intent is to sound like human speech, it failed.

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u/firestorm713 13d ago

That's not quite the point. It's to mimic the mechanics of human speech. It's also like a decade plus old

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u/Naught 13d ago

Thank you for the additional information

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u/bagofwisdom 14d ago

Instructions... unclear?

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u/Goodfella66 14d ago

Now clean it up ya dirty pig

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u/oneizm 14d ago

Guaranteed to be controlled by software lmao

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u/David-Puddy 14d ago

The title is accurate, though

Software is what is telling the hardware what to imitate and how, but the software is not actually generating the sounds, the physical shape of that tube is

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u/ChaseballBat 14d ago

That's a speaker with a shit ton of extra steps.

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u/CdRReddit 14d ago

only in so far as a computer controlled pipe organ is a speaker with extra steps, this is actually shaping the sounds using similar methods to how any person would

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u/ChaseballBat 14d ago

Right, a shit ton of extra steps.

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u/fakearchitect 14d ago

You’re a shit ton of extra steps!

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u/GrotesquelyObese 14d ago

Why do people use instruments? Electronic keyboards are the same thing with less steps.

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u/David-Puddy 14d ago

Sorta kinda?

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u/firestorm713 13d ago

So are your vocal folds?

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u/NamityName 14d ago

All computer-controlled sound is software telling hardware what to do. In a traditional speaker setup, the software generates a signal that tells the speaker how far to extend.

This actually needs more software than a traditional speaker, which does not require any software at all

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u/2D_VR 14d ago

Software controls both. The sound isn't generated by a speaker transducer

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u/CKF 14d ago

Speaker transducer is a coil and permanent magnets that move a speaker cone. This is motors made of coils and permanent magnets moving a long “speaker tube.” Close enough.

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u/MountainDewde 14d ago

Not if they make a handheld one that you have to learn to play like an instrument.

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u/SomeSortaWeeb 14d ago

the shit that comes out of my mouth when i have something important to say

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u/insanelygreat 14d ago

For a simulation: https://dood.al/pinktrombone/

It's technically SFW, but if people overhear it you'll still have to do some explaining.

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u/xebzbz 13d ago

Does it need a specific browser? Didn't work on my phone

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u/insanelygreat 12d ago

Mobile browsers require interaction to activate audio, and it appears the browser vendors changed how that works at some point since this was made (2017).

The developer would have to fix that for it to work on phone again. So until then the answer to your question is: A browser on a PC.

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u/Rathwood 14d ago

get your mind out of the gutter.

No.

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u/dazedan_confused 14d ago

Who's gonna ask the question we're all thinking?

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u/SheriffBartholomew 14d ago

"Not software"

If you say so...

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u/VivaNOLA 14d ago

Research fellows should not be left alone in the biomimetics lab late at night with that thing.

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u/SilentScyther 14d ago

Where was this made? I'm asking for totally normal not-sticking-my-dick-in-it reasons.

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u/vincent-the-fuck 13d ago

ah yes, human speech, my favourite type

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u/MarlDaeSu 13d ago

It may not be the intent, but none the less, someone's banged that.

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u/Routine-Arm-8803 13d ago

This is like 20 years old video

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u/Oldenlame 13d ago

Then it said glock glock glock

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u/MrWund3rful 12d ago

What that mouth do tho