Control Methods of Acoustic Parameters for Singing-Voice Synthesis
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چکیده
To construct a natural singing voice synthesis system, it is important to adequately control acoustic parameters such as fundamental frequency (F0), phoneme duration, and spectrum information in the synthesis method, based on comparative analysis between spokenand singing-voices. This paper proposes a transformation from read speech into singing-voice using STRAIGHT. This method is composed of an F0 control model, a duration control method for each type of phoneme, and a spectrum stretching method for controlling spectral shapes in read speech. Results showed that the proposed system can synthesize a natural singing-voice, whose sound quality is almost the same as that of sung voice.
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