Voiceprint -> Audio program?

[Spaceman42]

Um, yeah. I was watching the Nullsoft Tiny Fullscreen Visualization thing when an idea came to me - why not have a program that does the opposite - that is, turn image input into audio output? Since I dabble both in audio stuff and visual arts, I can think of several creative uses for this sort of program. Anyone have any ideas on how to transform the idea into a functioning program, or is it an impossibility?

[Spaceman42]

... I wonder how a nude would sound if this ever became a reality.

[SSJ4 Gogitta]

I'm sure it could be done... a program to convert the RGB values for an image into frequencies.

All that would really be left to do is adjust tempo...

[mikm]

Googled around, found this (http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Rain/) kinda old, though.

[Spaceman42]

... Uh, wtf is a .tcl file?

[SSJ4 Gogitta]

I found this (http://www.musicaltoaster.com/articles.php?theArticle=3.)

[Spaceman42]

Hmm. While that program is interesting, I'm really looking for a program that'll take greyscale images, where each row is for a specific frequency, and convert that into sound. Shouldn't be too difficult, but I'm not a programmer, just a nut.

[Spaceman42]

And that second program? With the files I ran through it, it sounded almost exactly like radio static with the volume cranked to max.

[SSJ4 Gogitta]

Um, yea.. seemingly random numbers would pretty much produce static.

[ryan]

Try downloading fruity loops it has a beepmap thing that comes with it, it converts bmp files to sound.

[Spaceman42]

Like I said - a program to convert greyscale images of a certain height to audio, with each row representing a specific frequency would be the sort of thing I'm looking for. Maybe variable height, even. Basically, the reverse version of the Nullsoft Tiny Fullscreen "Sexy Scrolling Voiceprint" thing.

[Spaceman42]

Ah, frick. Can anyone tell me where I could likely find people who might be interested in working on this sort of somewhat useless program?

[Spaceman42]

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[deathazre]

Originally posted by Spaceman42
Bueller?
it's his day off.

[Spaceman42]

Har har har. That's not very helpful, though.

Should I post this in a different forum?

[nothingreally]

Here is a starting point... about your idea... check it out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrogram

also see the following program:

http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/

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