Speaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TheMcphearson

Topic

speech on piano

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2010–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• A loudspeaker is nothing but a coil, a magnet and a piece of cardboard and it too is capable of incredible tonal quality and a huge range of polyphonics. This one really got me: [VIDEO]

• I love this demo. It’s a good example of how much our perception is affected by our priors. This is a other great example, where speech is synthesized with an acoustic piano (though the keys are controlled digitally, the sound is just from the hammers …

• It's the Shepard tone effect running in the background of the actual notes, which produce a mild illusion that they're ascending when they're not, but nevertheless they're moving up and then down in pitches so it's not a brilliant example. I think the author is …