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2013-12-20 17:05
Application of HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Techniques to a Singing Style Synthesis Job Plugin Makoto Tachibana, Keijiro Saino, Yuji Hisaminato (Yamaha Corp) SP2013-94 |
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Recent HMM-based speech synthesis systems have the capability to control speaker/style characteristics by statistically modeling prosodic features of speech. In this paper, we aim to introduce such exibility into VOCALOID(TM), a singing voice synthesizer based on concatenative synthesis. An HMM is used to model the pitch trajectory, which is an important feature for expressing singing style. In order to synthesize appropriate results for pitches which do not have training data, we propose using pitch bend change as a feature for training the HMM. We also propose a segment-level unit modeling and multiple-stage clustering technique for the expression of long note sequences. We show the proposed technique implemented as a VOCALOID(TM)3 Job Plugin. |
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HMM-based speech synthesis / singing voice synthesis / singing style / pitch bend / context clustering / / / |
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IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 366, SP2013-94, pp. 123-128, Dec. 2013. |
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SP2013-94 |
Date of Issue |
2013-12-12 (SP) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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SP IPSJ-SLP |
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2013-12-19 - 2013-12-20 |
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15th Symposium on Spoken Language |
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Application of HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Techniques to a Singing Style Synthesis Job Plugin |
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HMM-based speech synthesis |
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singing voice synthesis |
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singing style |
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pitch bend |
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context clustering |
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Makoto Tachibana |
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Yamaha Corporation (Yamaha Corp) |
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Keijiro Saino |
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Yamaha Corporation (Yamaha Corp) |
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Yuji Hisaminato |
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Yamaha Corporation (Yamaha Corp) |
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2013-12-20 17:05:00 |
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25 minutes |
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SP2013-94 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.113 |
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no.366 |
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pp.123-128 |
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6 |
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2013-12-12 (SP) |
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