INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing Jeju Island, Korea October 4-8, 2004

Procedure "senza vibrato": A Key Component for Morphing Singing

Hideki Kawahara, Yumi Hirachi, Morise Masanori, Hideki Banno

Wakayama University, Japan

A procedure to remove vibrato from singing voice was proposed to enable auditory morphing between musical performances played under different conditions. Analyses of singing samples in the RWCP-music database using a speech analysis, modification and synthesis system STRAIGHT provided necessary information to implement "senza vibrato," the procedure that removes vibrato. A preliminary subjective evaluation for artificially adding and removing vibrato indicated that the proposed procedure effectively control perceived vibrato while preserving naturalness of the original singing.

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Bibliographic reference.  Kawahara, Hideki / Hirachi, Yumi / Masanori, Morise / Banno, Hideki (2004): "Procedure "senza vibrato": a key component for morphing singing", In INTERSPEECH-2004, 89-92.