Generalized F0 modelling with absolute and relative pitch features for singing voice synthesis

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 429-432

  Lee, S W ^a   Ang, Shen Ting ^a,b   Dong, Minghui ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HMM; modelling; pitch; singing; synthesis

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT DEPENDENT; HMM; PITCH; RELATIVE PITCH; SINGING; SINGING-VOICE SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS METHOD;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MODELS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84867623442     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6287908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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