In the movie Hobbits, there is a scene about the hero face a dragon. In my point of view, the dragon’s voice wasn’t sounds nicely because it did not have much reverb on its voice, which does not make sense because the scene happen in a city in a huge close environment and it should have lots of reverb. Also, I want to add some spatial effect on its voice, so the sound and video can be more interactive. In this project, I extract the voice track from movie Hobbits, split it into two parts – main voice and others. Then I use leap motion controller to control the sound image position for the dragon voice. Finally, I add a reverb to the dragon’s voice.

You can image this project act as a cell phone noise cancellation. It has two inputs which simulate two microphone inputs in a cell phone, one Mic pick up voice + environmental noise and the other Mic pick up pure environment noise. This app combines both amplitude cancelation as well as phase cancelation. It also provided a gate therefore the pure environment noise signal won’t be heard by the user. The following video demonstrated shows this app can separate noise and wanting signal pretty good in both musical environments, speech environment, street noise environment and pure white noise, as long as some condition fited. However, if those conditions don’t meet (ex: not playing simultaneously, phase no match), the app won’t perform very good noise cancellation.

A second version of music track Dafunk.

I used two note element make some new track, and you can change the speed of the music see how weird it can be.

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This is a feedback loop for a speech signal which has approximately 1 min long. I used Cool Edit audio editing software and Matlab recorder to record and play back and forth.