Blind clustering of popular music recordings based on singer voice characteristics

Computer Music Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 68-78

  Tsai, Wei Ho ^a   Rodgers, Dwight ^a   Wang, Hsin Min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIND CLUSTERING; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; MUSIC RECORDINGS; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOUND RECORDING; SPEECH; VECTORS;

COMPUTER MUSIC;

EID: 4444245782     PISSN: 01489267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0148926041790630     Document Type: Article

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