Singing voice synthesis
Singing voice synthesis has resulted in beneficial commercial usage such as the VOCALOID Singing Synthesis Software by Yamaha. However, in order to reduce the complexity in the synthesis process and hence reduce cost, a closer look into the relationship between pitch and formants is necessary. From...
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| author | Tan, Hwee Teng. |
| author2 | Quah Tong Seng |
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| description | Singing voice synthesis has resulted in beneficial commercial usage such as the VOCALOID Singing Synthesis Software by Yamaha. However, in order to reduce the complexity in the synthesis process and hence reduce cost, a closer look into the relationship between pitch and formants is necessary. From this research, a conclusion that formants are changing with pitch and most suitably described as linearly changing can be drawn.
With the above conclusion on the relationship between pitch and formants, further testing was conducted through hands-on programming using MATLAB to conduct gender transformations on recordings. Recordings generated were then analysed and compared to determine the successfulness and efficiency of a total of four different spectral shifting functions. Gender transformation was the only tested transformation and results generated tallied with previously found relationship between pitch and formants. The linear function produced the best result out of the four functions. As only one transformation was tested, in the near future, more transformations can be tested with more variety of spectral shifting functions. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/446562023-07-07T17:08:12Z Singing voice synthesis Tan, Hwee Teng. Quah Tong Seng School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Dong Minghui DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering Singing voice synthesis has resulted in beneficial commercial usage such as the VOCALOID Singing Synthesis Software by Yamaha. However, in order to reduce the complexity in the synthesis process and hence reduce cost, a closer look into the relationship between pitch and formants is necessary. From this research, a conclusion that formants are changing with pitch and most suitably described as linearly changing can be drawn. With the above conclusion on the relationship between pitch and formants, further testing was conducted through hands-on programming using MATLAB to conduct gender transformations on recordings. Recordings generated were then analysed and compared to determine the successfulness and efficiency of a total of four different spectral shifting functions. Gender transformation was the only tested transformation and results generated tallied with previously found relationship between pitch and formants. The linear function produced the best result out of the four functions. As only one transformation was tested, in the near future, more transformations can be tested with more variety of spectral shifting functions. Bachelor of Engineering 2011-06-03T01:12:03Z 2011-06-03T01:12:03Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44656 en Nanyang Technological University 50 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering Tan, Hwee Teng. Singing voice synthesis |
| title | Singing voice synthesis |
| title_full | Singing voice synthesis |
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| title_short | Singing voice synthesis |
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| topic | DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering |
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