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The next subject in our program is about a woman in the USA, Suzanne Ciani,

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who is busy getting voices in equipment like this. Look and especially listen...

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This is Suzanne Ciani, a componist of electronic music.

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In a studio crammed with synthesizers, amplifiers, computers and recorders, she does all the compositions herself.

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Her specialty is making background music for films, but now she faces a new challenge:

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a manufacturer of pinball machines wants special sounds for their newest game.

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A double challenge: sounds and voices both have to be integrated.

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The "pinball symphony" is a new phenomenon, but where do the sounds come from?

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The secret is hidden in a microprocessor: a computer as large as a domino.

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There are 48,000 units of information stored in it.

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If you connect it to an operating computer, they will be played with the speed of sound.

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The woman's voice in a pinball. But how does it get into a chip?

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Besides, women's voices have a higher frequency than male voices

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and therefore need almost double storage space.

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This chip gives Suzanne five seconds of speech time.

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The recorded sounds were analyzed, measured and crunched in order to fit into the chip.

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Then they were programmed like a computer in a way

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that they react to the lamps and the scored points.

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Finally, the chips were mounted in the pinball machine.

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Sound chips are reasonably new. We will hear Suzanne's voice for five seconds,

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but maybe in the future we will have sound chips that contain entire symphonies.