vocal gesture

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The mapper manages an entire ensemble of synthesis instruments, each of which is controlled by the vocal gestures of a single player.
Inevitably, some players are shy, have difficulty thinking of vocal gestures, and quit after a few minutes.
To control their instrument, users input vocal gestures into a microphone.
The words, the phonemes, the vocal gestures are transformed into a musical flux enriched by the unique colours of each language.
After the first phrase, the vocal gestures, text fragments and melodic cells begin to move around; they are fragmented and regrouped.
We did not want sound output to stop completely when users were not making vocal gestures.
There is little doubt that vocal gestures now dominate, but they aren't everything, despite the unfortunate invention of the cellphone.
Over the course of a user session, the client-side neural network adapts to the vocal gestures created by the local user, updating its internal weights accordingly.
Corballis suggests that the transfer of modality from manual to vocal gestures is related to the enhancement of holistic gestures by facial gestures in the development of syntax.
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