# Info on a Voice Synthesizer that worked off of simulated Larynx shapes?
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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 7, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-a-voice-synthesizer-that-worked-off-of-simulated-larynx-shapes/173616 "2003-05-07T07:53:02Z")
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-a-voice-synthesizer-that-worked-off-of-simulated-larynx-shapes/173616/1 "2003-05-07T07:53:02Z")
I was just wondering if someone could help me find some information on a machine I saw on “Beyond 2000,” a few years back. Apparently, a researcher in Japan (I _think_ it was Japan…) developed a program into which you entered measurements of a human’s throat and skull, and the program then would then produce a computer-modeled a Larynx based on said measurements, and use it to simulate what the subject’s voice sounded like. The researcher demonstrated the synthesized voice of the Mona Lisa, and even a simulated growl from a Tyrannosaurus…which the documentary claimed the Steven Spielberg was going to use in the (then) upcoming movie “The Lost World: Jurassic Park II.”
Can anyone tell me where I can find out more about this system, if it is all it’s cracked up to be?
Ranchoth
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-a-voice-synthesizer-that-worked-off-of-simulated-larynx-shapes/173616/2 "2003-05-07T16:05:02Z")
Old stuff, really.
AT&T’s Bell Labs was working with computer modeling of human speech a couple decades ago.
I’d love to toss up some cites, but this was pre-web, making it hard to find anything from here.
I did manage to dig up that they’ve been electronically synthesizing speech at Bell Labs since [1939](http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1997/march/5/2.html).
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-a-voice-synthesizer-that-worked-off-of-simulated-larynx-shapes/173616/3 "2003-05-07T16:08:52Z")
Oops… forgot to add that I tried looking at _Beyond 2000’s_ website, but it’s down at the moment.