| Presentation | 2015-12-02 An analysis of difference among singers in kurtosis of LPC residual spectrum of breathy vowel voice Masahiro Itou, Hideki Banno, Kensaku Asahi, |
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| Abstract(in English) | It is known that keeping pitch and pressure of uttered voice steady is required to improve singing capability. However, keeping them steady might be difficult when vocal cords vibration of uttered voice includes “breathiness”. In this research, as the first step to the goal to detect breathiness level in singing, we investigate the detection method of breathy voice in vowel singing. This paper describes an analysis focused on harmonic structure of breathy voice for two singers. The analysis uses an LPC residual signal calculated from input voice and the kurtosis which reflects sharpness of spectrum to evaluate breathiness. It is found that by using the kurtosis, breathiness of hard breathy voice is likely to be detectable, but some soft breathy voice is not detectable for some vowel, pitch or pressure condition. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Breathiness / LPC residual signal / Sub-band processing / Kurtosis |
| Paper # | SP2015-79 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-11-25 (SP) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | NLC / IPSJ-NL / SP / IPSJ-SLP |
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| Conference Date | 2015/12/2(3days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Nagoya Inst of Tech. |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | The Second Natural Language Processing Symposium & The 17th Spoken Language Symposium |
| Chair | Koichi Takeuchi(Okayama Univ.) / Kentaro Inui(Tohoku Univ.) / Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Koichi Shinoda(東工大) |
| Vice Chair | Hiroshi Kanayama(IBM) / Makoto Ichise(NTT DoCoMo) / / Norihide Kitaoka(Tokushima Univ.) |
| Secretary | Hiroshi Kanayama(Univ. of Tokyo/Hottolink) / Makoto Ichise(Ryukoku Univ.) / (Osaka Univ.) / Norihide Kitaoka(Tohoku Univ.) / (Mixi Co. Ltd.) |
| Assistant | Kazutaka Shimada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.) / Ryuichiro Higashinaka(NTT) / / Takashi Nose(Tohoku Univ.) / Taichi Asami(NTT) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication / Special Interest Group on Natural Language / Technical Committee on Speech / Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Processing |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | An analysis of difference among singers in kurtosis of LPC residual spectrum of breathy vowel voice |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Breathiness |
| Keyword(2) | LPC residual signal |
| Keyword(3) | Sub-band processing |
| Keyword(4) | Kurtosis |
| 1st Author's Name | Masahiro Itou |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Meijo University(Meijo Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hideki Banno |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Meijo University(Meijo Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Kensaku Asahi |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Meijo University(Meijo Univ.) |
| Date | 2015-12-02 |
| Paper # | SP2015-79 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | SP-346 |
| Page | pp.pp.65-69(SP), |
| #Pages | 5 |
| Date of Issue | 2015-11-25 (SP) |