The evaluation of singing voice accuracy: A comparison between subjective and objective methods

Journal of Voice

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 259.e1-259.e5

  Larrouy Maestri, Pauline ^a   Lévêque, Yohana ^b   Schön, Daniele ^c   Giovanni, Antoine ^b   Morsomme, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Music experts; Perceptive rating; Singing; Untrained singers; Vocal accuracy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERROR; HUMAN; MODULATION; PITCH; SINGING; SINGING VOICE ACCURACY; VOICE ACCURACY; VOICE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875264404     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: 18734588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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