Spectral Processing of the Singing Voice a Dissertation Submitted to the Department of Information and Communication Technologies from the Pompeu Fabra University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor per La Universitat Pompeu Fabra

............................................................................................................................. v Resumen........................................................................................................................... vii Resum................................................................................................................................ ix Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................ xi Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Motivation............................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Personal background............................................................................................ 2 1.2.1 As an engineer.......................................................................................... 2 1.2.1.1 Elvis ............................................................................................. 2 1.2.1.2 SMSPerformer ............................................................................. 3 1.2.1.3 Daisy ............................................................................................ 3 1.2.1.4 Rosa.............................................................................................. 4 1.2.1.5 Vocal Processor and ComboVox................................................. 4 1.2.1.6 Semantic HIFI.............................................................................. 5 1.2.1.7 ESPRESSO .................................................................................. 5 1.2.1.8 AudioScaner................................................................................. 6 1.2.2 As a musician........................................................................................... 6 1.3 Aims and contributions ........................................................................................ 7 1.4 Summary of the PhD work .................................................................................. 8 Chapter 2: Technologies for the singing voice ............................................................... 9 2.