hello,

i'm just wondering if anyone could explain to me how scramble~ works, the help file is not so clear.

what i would like to do with it (or anything else) is to take in an audio stream which will be someone reading poetry, and to take words and syllables and displace them in real time.

it doesn't have to be so precise, ie it doesn't need to only take one syllable or one word (though the option would be nice but i figured it would be quite difficult) but i would like it to repeat it or play at a later time and etc

so i guess there are three questions here,

what is the best way to do this 'scrambling' and of course if scramble is the best way, how do i use it?

and if not scramble what you you suggest?

i am just begining with PD and am just starting to get a bit more of a handle for it.

ok well thankyou
ciao for now

Hi interesting idea.

Not sure about the scramble~ object either.

Anyway if I understand what you describe, in real-time (i.e. not using a file) I guess you could sample some of the input (say 1 to 5 seconds) of the person reading the poem to an array, then playback random parts of the array. Of course that introduces a fixed delay of n seconds from the moment the speaker starts.

I guess it would be quite hard to "detect" syllables, while for words you might setup some kind of "noise gate" type especially if the speaker can keep them quite "separate" while reading, but I guess it needs quite some experimentation...

Hope I gave you some useful hints.

kind regards,
Lorenzo.

have a look at this: http://www.timvets.net/software/pd_autocutup.php?page=software