Modeling of vocal styles using portable features and placement rules

We present a step towards a mathematical description of style in speech and singing. We represent a style of speech or singing as a set of portable prosodic features along with a set of rules to choose where the features are to be applied. Speech and singing can both be conveniently described by sep...

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Main Authors: Shih, C, Kochanski, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2003
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description We present a step towards a mathematical description of style in speech and singing. We represent a style of speech or singing as a set of portable prosodic features along with a set of rules to choose where the features are to be applied. Speech and singing can both be conveniently described by separating their style from their content. In both speech and singing, style is implemented in terms of acoustic parameters like pitch and loudness. The features we use correspond to musical embellishments or prosodic accents and phrase curve in speech, and are implemented via Stem-ML (Soft TEMplate Mark-up Language). We present several examples to illustrate the usefulness of the style/content separation, and the similarity between speech and music.
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spelling oxford-uuid:4fd36546-eebb-4d75-b7d5-f33886c84ea12022-03-26T16:10:00ZModeling of vocal styles using portable features and placement rulesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4fd36546-eebb-4d75-b7d5-f33886c84ea1LinguisticsComputational LinguisticsEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetSpringer2003Shih, CKochanski, GWe present a step towards a mathematical description of style in speech and singing. We represent a style of speech or singing as a set of portable prosodic features along with a set of rules to choose where the features are to be applied. Speech and singing can both be conveniently described by separating their style from their content. In both speech and singing, style is implemented in terms of acoustic parameters like pitch and loudness. The features we use correspond to musical embellishments or prosodic accents and phrase curve in speech, and are implemented via Stem-ML (Soft TEMplate Mark-up Language). We present several examples to illustrate the usefulness of the style/content separation, and the similarity between speech and music.
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Computational Linguistics
Shih, C
Kochanski, G
Modeling of vocal styles using portable features and placement rules
title Modeling of vocal styles using portable features and placement rules
title_full Modeling of vocal styles using portable features and placement rules
title_fullStr Modeling of vocal styles using portable features and placement rules
title_full_unstemmed Modeling of vocal styles using portable features and placement rules
title_short Modeling of vocal styles using portable features and placement rules
title_sort modeling of vocal styles using portable features and placement rules
topic Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
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