| Presentation | 2004/8/12 A Method of Singing-Voice Synthesis from Speaking-Voice based on Acoustic Features Affecting "Singing-ness" Takeshi SAITOU, Naoya TSUJI, Masashi UNOKI, Masato AKAGI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | To construct a natural singing-voice synthesis system, it is important to adequately control acoustic features such as fundamental frequency (FO), spectrum shapes, and phoneme duration in the synthesis method. This paper reveals acoustic features affecting singing-voice perception by comparative analyzing singing- and speaking-voices, and then proposes a transforming method from speaking-voice into singing-voice using STRAIGHT (Kawahara et al., 1999). This method is composed of an FO control model for generating FO contours of singing-voices, a spectral sequence control model for modifying spectral shapes in speaking-voice, and a duration control model based on rhythm. Results showed that the proposed system could synthesize a natural singing-voice, whose sound quality is almost the same as that of real one. |
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| Keyword(in English) | singing-voice synthesis / STRAIGHT / FO control / spectral sequence control / duration control |
| Paper # | EA2004-30 |
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| Committee | EA |
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| Conference Date | 2004/8/12(1days) |
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| Registration To | Engineering Acoustics (EA) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | A Method of Singing-Voice Synthesis from Speaking-Voice based on Acoustic Features Affecting "Singing-ness" |
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| Keyword(1) | singing-voice synthesis |
| Keyword(2) | STRAIGHT |
| Keyword(3) | FO control |
| Keyword(4) | spectral sequence control |
| Keyword(5) | duration control |
| 1st Author's Name | Takeshi SAITOU |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Naoya TSUJI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| 3rd Author's Name | Masashi UNOKI |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| 4th Author's Name | Masato AKAGI |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| Date | 2004/8/12 |
| Paper # | EA2004-30 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.104 |
| Number (no) | 246 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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