In this paper we present a set of spectral domain audio transformation technologies and some existing and proposed applications of these technologies in video games. The technologies include real-time voice transformation and tempo/pitch transformation for music. Voice Transformation is mainly used to create new character's voices modifying existing recorded material but also for transforming t...

In most popular music, the vocals sung by the lead singer are the focal point of the song. The unique qualities of a singer’s voice make it relatively easy for us to identify a song as belonging to that particular artist. With little training, if one i s familiar with a particular singer’s voice one can usually recognize that voice in other pieces, even when hearing a song for the first time. T...

In most popular music, the vocals sung by the lead singer are the focal point of the song. The unique qualities of a singer’s voice make it relatively easy for us to identify a song as belonging to that particular artist. With little training, if one i s familiar with a particular singer’s voice one can usually recognize that voice in other pieces, even when hearing a song for the first time. T...

There are few studies on the role of phonation cues in the perception of lexical tones in tonal languages where pitch is the primary dimension of contrast. This study shows that listeners are sensitive to creaky phonation in native tonal perception in Cantonese, a language in which the low falling tone, Tone 4, has anecdotally been reported to be sometimes creaky. First, in a multi-speaker corp...

This paper presents the recent developments dealing with our metrical score representation format and how it can be used to produce and manipulate musical scores in PWGL. The base of these ideas is a special score format, called ENP-Score-notation, that allows to describe in textual form various score elements like beats, measures, voices and parts. This basic format can be extended using keywo...

Vocal melody extraction is an important and challenging task in music information retrieval. One main difficulty that, most of the time, various instruments singing voices are mixed according to harmonic structure, making it hard identify fundamental frequency (F0) a voice. Therefore, reducing interference accompaniment beneficial pitch estimation In this paper, we first adopted high-resolution...

In-vehicle music retrieval systems are becoming more and more popular. Previous studies have shown that they pose a real hazard to drivers when the interface is a tactile one which requires multiple entries and a combination of manual control and visual feedback. Voice interfaces exist as an alternative. Such interfaces can require either multiple or single conversational turns. In this study, ...

Instead of the expansion of the information retrieval systems, the music information retrieval domain is still an open one. In this context, the singing voice classification is a promised trend. In this paper, we shall present our experiments concerning the classification of singers according to their voice type, and their voice quality. Some experiments were carried in which two sets of parame...

appearance of music in history of human being is an innate issue. when the man started the social life and the special civilization and culture formed in the society the music as the part of human life changed in a way which got an important part of culture of nations. so we want to study music in islamic culture. one of the most important and ambiguous issues in jurisprudence is music which is...