Special edition. Sound signal processing technology. 5. Speech synthesis and sound synthesis techniques.

Audio signal Driven sound synthesis

A new approach to computer music instruments is described. Rather than sense control parameters from acoustic instruments (or non-acoustic instrument controllers), the sound of an acoustic instrument is used directly by a synthesis algorithm, usually replacing an oscillator. Parameters such as amplitude and pitch can control other aspects of the synthesis. This approach gives the player more co...

Signal Processing for Spatial Sound Reproduction with Wave Field Synthesis

Wave Field Synthesis is a technique for spatial sound reproduction that overcomes the limitations of classical stereophonic techniques. A thorough analysis of acoustic wave propagation prinicples delivers the technical description in terms of loudspeaker array technology. Suitable signal processing methods convert the source signals into driving signals for each loudspeaker. The suitability of ...

Environmental Sound Synthesis, Processing, and Retrieval

It aims at targeting the multifaceted area of research devoted to the complex relation between environment and sound, a relation that still needs to be investigated. Indeed, we are literally immersed into sound: as Handel says, " Listening puts me in the world " ([1], xi). In this sense, a phenomenology of listening, delving deeply into the philosophical and psychological aspects of sound perce...

Audio Processing and Sound Synthesis in Haskell

Automatic Generation of Sound Synthesis Techniques

Digital sound synthesizers, ubiquitous today in sound cards, software and dedicated hardware, use algorithms (Sound Synthesis Techniques, SSTs) capable of generating sounds similar to those of acoustic instruments and even totally novel sounds. The design of SSTs is a very hard problem. It is usually assumed that it requires human ingenuity to design an algorithm suitable for synthesizing a sou...