Acappella synthesis demonstrations using RWC music database: application of auditory morphing based on STRAIGHT

Authors:
Hideki Kawahara;Hideki Banno;Masanori Morise
Affiliations:
Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan;Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan;Wakayama University, Wakayama, Japan
Venue:
NIME '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference on New interfaces for musical expression
Year:
2004

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Abstract

A series of demonstrations of synthesized acappella songs based on an auditory morphing using STRAIGHT [5] will be presented. Singing voice data for morphing were extracted from the RWCmusic database of musical instrument sound. Discussions on a new extension of the morphing procedure to deal with vibrato will be introduced based on the statistical analysis of the database and its effect on synthesized acappella will also be demonstrated.