An automatic singing skill evaluation method for unknown melodies using pitch interval accuracy and vibrato features

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1706-1709

  Nakano, Tomoyasu ^a   Goto, Masataka ^b   Hiraga, Yuzuru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic evaluation; Singing skill; Unknown melodies

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; CLASSIFICATION RATES; CLASSIFICATION TESTS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; SINGING EVALUATIONS; SINGING SKILL; UNKNOWN MELODIES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 44949192112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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