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Presentation 2013-08-30 10:00
Voice pitch control using tactile feedback -- accuracy of voice pitch in singing --
Masatsugu Sakajiri, Shigeki Miyoshi (NTUT), Kenryu Nakamura, Satoshi Fukushima, Tohru Ifukube (Univ. of Tokyo) WIT2013-31
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Deafblind and hearing impaired persons cannot perceive their own voice pitch and thus find it difficult to control. While singing, the voice pitch needs to be controlled to maintain a stable tone. Hence, a voice pitch control system was developed to assist such persons in singing. In a previous study, two deafblind subjects using this system could control their voice pitch with comparable accuracy as hearing children while singing “Frog Round,” even though successive notes in the song’ melody were adjacent in the musical scale. Herein, the pitch control accuracy is investigated for “Frog Round,” and song in which successive notes are separated by wider intervals in the musical scale, for comparison. We describe the results of this investigation in this paper.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) voice pitch / deafblind / hearing impaired / tactile display / singing / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 195, WIT2013-31, pp. 41-46, Aug. 2013.
Paper # WIT2013-31 
Date of Issue 2013-08-22 (WIT) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee WIT  
Conference Date 2013-08-29 - 2013-08-30 
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Place (in English) Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Bldg. 
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Conference Code 2013-08-WIT 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Voice pitch control using tactile feedback 
Sub Title (in English) accuracy of voice pitch in singing 
Keyword(1) voice pitch  
Keyword(2) deafblind  
Keyword(3) hearing impaired  
Keyword(4) tactile display  
Keyword(5) singing  
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1st Author's Name Masatsugu Sakajiri  
1st Author's Affiliation Tsukuba University of Technology (NTUT)
2nd Author's Name Shigeki Miyoshi  
2nd Author's Affiliation Tsukuba University of Technology (NTUT)
3rd Author's Name Kenryu Nakamura  
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
4th Author's Name Satoshi Fukushima  
4th Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
5th Author's Name Tohru Ifukube  
5th Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
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Date Time 2013-08-30 10:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for WIT 
Paper # WIT2013-31 
Volume (vol) vol.113 
Number (no) no.195 
Page pp.41-46 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2013-08-22 (WIT) 

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