This paper describes recent improvements to our singing voice synthesizer based on concatenation and transformation of audio samples using spectral models. Improvements include firstly robust automation of previous singer database creation process, a lengthy and tedious task which involved recording scripts generation, studio sessions, audio editing, spectral analysis, and phonetic based segmentation; and secondly synthesis technique enhancement, improving the quality of sample transformations and concatenations, and discriminating between phonetic intonation and musical articulation.

Authors: Blaauw, Merlijn; Bonada, Jordi; Loscos, Alex
Affiliation: Universitat Pompeu Fabra - MTG
AES Convention: 121 (October 2006) Paper Number: 6900
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
Subject: Analysis and Synthesis

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