R] Training a voice synthesizer from non-linguistic corpus of audio?

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Long ago I read one of William Gibson's novels in which he describes a series of characters that mask their voices by generating word-like sounds from non-linguistic sources. In particular, his description of a character who spoke using words generated from the sounds of glass breaking has really stuck with me for many years.

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