Waveguide Voice Engine

Natural voice from pure physics.

No neural networks. No recordings. No training data. No runtime dependencies. A digital waveguide that produces human-quality speech from mathematics alone. Formants emerge from geometry, not lookup tables.

22050 Hz
Sample rate
10
Tract sections
0
Heuristics
LF
Glottal model
How It Works

Three-stage physics pipeline

Sound is produced by simulating the physical vocal tract. No statistical models. No neural inference. Pure waveguide physics.

01

Glottal Source

Liljencrants-Fant two-mass fold model generates the raw excitation signal. No samples, no recordings — pure waveform physics from first principles.

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02

Vocal Tract Filter

10-section digital waveguide models the human vocal tract. Cross-sectional areas shape formant frequencies. Change the geometry, change the voice.

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03

Radiation & Output

Lip radiation model applies the final acoustic transform. Natural-sounding speech computed entirely from first principles. Real-time on embedded hardware.

Deployment Verticals

From prosthetics to defence

The same deterministic waveguide engine powers every application. No cloud. No network. Runs on embedded hardware in real time.

Voice Prosthetics

Natural speech restoration for laryngectomy patients. Real-time synthesis from a deterministic waveguide engine running on embedded hardware. No cloud connection required.

Hearing Prosthetics

Cochlear waveguide processing with Hopf amplifier and binaural spatial audio. Physics-based hearing aid processing with deterministic latency.

Sensor Prosthetics

Extensible waveguide framework for tactile and spatial sensing prosthetic devices. The same physics kernel adapted for non-auditory sensory input.

Aerospace & Defence

Deterministic voice synthesis and recognition for secure communications. No external dependencies, air-gapped capable, tamper-proof.

Published Research

Three position papers

The theoretical foundations behind the waveguide engine. All peer-reviewable with permanent DOIs.

T17 — Position Paper
Deterministic Speech Synthesis via Vocal Tract Waveguide Physics
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21970811
T18 — Position Paper
Auditory Perception by Cochlear Waveguide Physics: Real-Time Spectral Decomposition Without Fourier Transforms
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21970815
T19 — Position Paper
Sub-Neural Latency Speech Prosthetics: Restoring Voice Faster Than Biology
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21970827

The Adjoint Pair

Voice production and auditory perception are mathematical duals. The same kernel powers both — one physics framework, two directions. Production (W) and perception (W†) form an adjoint pair on a 2-simplex. One architecture for all sound.