The Value of Voice

The purpose of this study is to develop a system that can synthesize operatic singing voices from the speaking voice of a user who has no experience singing opera. In our previous work, a method that converts the speaker individuality of the input ...

Perceptual features are motivated by human perception of sounds. In this paper, several perceptually-motivated features such as harmonic, vibrato and timbre are studied to detect singing voice segments in a song. In addition, singing formant and attack-...

Since sound was first recorded on a cylinder wrapped in tin foil by Edison in 1877, technology has steadily evolved to allow an ever increasing level of sonic mutability. Gradually, pre-recorded sounds (or 'inputs') which where once fixed could be ...