Singing voice synthesis combining excitation plus resonance and sinusoidal plus residual models

Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Celma Herrada, Òscar; Loscos, Àlex; Ortolà, Jaume; Serra, Xavier; Yoshioka, Yasuo; Kayama, Hiraku; Hisaminato, Yuji; Kenmochi, Hideki

Singing voice synthesis combining excitation plus resonance and sinusoidal plus residual models

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Bonada J, Celmà O, Loscos A, Ortolà J, Serra X, et al. Singing voice synthesis combining excitation plus resonance and sinusoidal plus residual models. In: Proceedings of the 2001 International Computer Music Conference, ICMC; 2001 Sep 17-22; Havana, Cuba. [Michigan]: Michigan Publishing; 2001.

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to the modeling of the singing voice with a particular emphasis on the naturalness of the resulting synthetic voice. The underlying analysis/synthesis technique is based on the Spectral Modeling Synthesis (SMS) and a newly developed Excitation plus Resonance (EpR) model. With this approach a complete singing voice synthesizer is developed that generates a vocal melody out of the score and the phonetic transcription of a song.