Synthassist: Querying an audio synthesizer by vocal imitation

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 363-366

  Cartwright, Mark ^a   Pardo, Bryan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio retrieval; Query by example; Synthesizer interface; Voice controlled interfaces

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; MUSIC; QUERY PROCESSING;

AUDIO RETRIEVAL; HUMAN VOICE; QUERY-BY EXAMPLE; RELATIVE TIME; SETTING PARAMETERS; SYNTHESIZER INTERFACE; TIMES SERIES; USER FEEDBACK; VOICE CONTROLED INTERFACE; VOICE-CONTROLLED;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 85012936542     PISSN: 22204792     EISSN: 22204806     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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