A singing style modeling system for singing voice synthesizers

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2894-2897

  Saino, Keijiro ^a   Tachibana, Makoto ^a   Kenmochi, Hideki ^a  

^a YAMAHA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

HMM; Singing style; Singing voice synthesis

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; MUSIC;

CONTEXT DEPENDENT; METHOD OF MODELING; MODEL METHOD; SINGING STYLES; SINGING VOICES; SINGING-VOICE SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIZED SOUNDS; TRAINING DATA; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; HMM; MODELLING SYSTEMS; POWER;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 79959812008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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