Vocoder Veil

Speak or sing — your voice becomes the shape, Karel's piano becomes the voice.

design notes ↓
120 Hz~1 kHz7 kHz
idle

Plays instantly in auto-demo mode — no mic needed.

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A channel vocoder splits both your voice and the piano into 16 frequency bands. Your voice's energy in each band controls how much of the corresponding piano band comes through — so the piano speaks in your formants.

Classic sibilance fix: broadband noise mixes into the carrier so “s” and “sh” sounds pass clearly. Tap the visualization bars = the live filterbank.

Technique refs: Homer Dudley — Bell Labs Vocoder (1939) · Wendy Carlos & Robert Moog (vocoder on A Clockwork Orange) · Imogen Heap — “Hide and Seek”.

The dream lab — Karel Barnoski