Singing voice synthesis: Singer-dependent vibrato modeling and coherent processing of spectral envelope

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2001-2004

  Lee, S W ^a   Dong, Minghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Singing voice synthesis; Spectral envelope; Vibrato

Indexed keywords

COHERENT PROCESSING; HUMAN VOICE; JOINT PROCESSING; MODELING TECHNIQUE; OUTPUT QUALITY; PITCH PROCESSING; SINGING-VOICE SYNTHESIS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; SUBJECTIVE LISTENING TEST; VIBRATO; VOICE QUALITY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84865746117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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