Using EVP maker with
SpeakJet Allophones.
July 13th, 2011 by Arwin John.
This
article shows how EVPmaker can be set up to use the 72 allophones of
the SpeakJet™ chip as an audio source to generate a robotic-like
random voice which seems to produce interesting results when used
for EVP sessions.
The SpeakJet is a
completely self contained, single chip voice and complex sound
synthesizer. It uses Mathematical Sound Architecture™ (MSA)
technology which controls an internal five channel sound synthesizer
to generate on-the-fly, unlimited vocabulary speech synthesis and
complex sounds. The SpeakJet is preconfigured with 72 speech
elements (allophones), 43 sound effects, and 12 DTMF Touch Tones.
Through the selection of these MSA components and in combination
with the control of the pitch, rate, bend, and volume parameters,
the user has the ability to produce unlimited phrases and sound
effects, with thousands of variations, at any time. This is not
recorded waveforms or sound fragments but truly synthetic sound.
I used Audition to
create a WAV file that contains only the 72 allophones of the demo
mode, and to store their boundaries into the so called "cue list" -
this is a data list inside each WAV file which can be used to store
the positions and lengths of sections within the audio recording.
It's pretty much the same as the track list of CDs. Cue list entries
can also have named labels and written comments, which, BTW, makes
the cue list very useful for transcribing EVP recordings.
You may download the
Speakjet Allophones wav file by right clicking the link below and
clicking save link as :
Download SpeakJet Allophones
If you have not
downloaded the EVPmaker software, please do so by clicking
HERE
Here's the List
on how it works:
1. Open the EVPmaker program and check the box marked "use cue list"
and everything else should get grayed out.
2. Uncheck Z-cross if it's checked
3. Top left there is a folder, click on that and find (SJ-Allophones)
and double click that file. You should now see that file at the top
in the blue section showing it loaded.
4. Go to Extras on top and click speed control, that will make the
speed control bar come up
5. Set the speed to 90%
6. Click on the yellow arrow, next to the green arrow up top and it
will start randomly spitting out vocal segments of various tones
they will use to form voices.
7. Experiment with different speeds if you like and ask questions
just like a regular box session and record it and go over it. You
should get some real time answers too.
8. It's different than a box, no radio is involved.
All the best
Arwin John
Record the EVPmaker
sound via a microphone into a recorder - this may be a digital voice
recorder, a cassette recorder, or even an audio recording software
on the same computer. Say or ask something, and leave pauses between
your questions to allow for responses. With some practice you may be
able to hear EVP responses immediately; in this case you could try
to to conduct a direct two-way communication. Don't let the session
last for longer than 5 minutes. When you listen to the recording
afterwards, you will probably find more EVP. Instead of making one
single session of several minutes with a number of questions, you
can also make multiple short recordings, each with only one question
asked, and played back immediately to get the answer. This might me
easier than a direct conversation at the beginning.
