Vocalistener: A singing-to-singing synthesis system based on iterative parameter estimation

Proceedings of the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, SMC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 343-348

  Nakano, Tomoyasu ^a   Goto, Masataka ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; ITERATIVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SINGING SYNTHESIS; SINGING VOICES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 78049360766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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