This paper describes music information retrieval (MIR) systems featuring automatic speech recognition. Although various interfaces for MIR have been proposed, speech-recognition interfaces suitable for retrieving musical pieces have not been studied. We propose two different speech-recognition interfaces for MIR, speech completion and speech spotter, and describe two MIR-based hands-free jukebo...

This chapter is about the estimation of multiple fundamental frequencies (F0) from a waveform such as the compound sound of several people speaking at the same time, or several musical instruments playing together. That information may be needed to transcribe the music to a score, to extract intonation patterns for speech recognition, or as an ingredient for computational auditory scene analysi...

The basis for different neural activations in response to male and female voices as well as the question, whether men and women perceive male and female voices differently, has not been thoroughly investigated. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine the behavioral and neural correlates of gender-related voice perception in healthy male and female volunteers. fMRI data were colle...

This chapter is about the estimation of multiple fundamental frequencies (F0) from a waveform such as the compound sound of several people speaking at the same time, or several musical instruments playing together. That information may be needed to transcribe the music to a score, to extract intonation patterns for speech recognition, or as an ingredient for computational auditory scene analysi...

Several studies have identified, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a region within the superior temporal gyrus that preferentially responds to musical stimuli. However, in most cases, significant responses to other complex stimuli, particularly human voice, were also observed. Thus, it remains unknown if the same neurons respond to both stimulus types, albeit with different st...

Voice separation, along with tempo detection and quantisation, is one of the basic problems of computer-based transcription of music. An adequate separation of notes into different voices is crucial for obtaining readable and usable scores from performances of polyphonic music recorded on keyboard (or other polyphonic) instruments; for improving quantisation results within a transcription syste...

Voice is the essential medium of man's communication in social as well as professional interactions. The human voice also reflects the state of health in many medical conditions which leads voice alterations in patients. This paper presents a voice analysis approach for discriminating the People With Parkinson (PWP) on the basis of extracted voice parameters. Voice analysis basically deals...

Voice separation, along with tempo detection and quantisation, is one of the basic problems of computer-based transcription of music. An adequate separation of notes into different voices is crucial for obtaining readable and usable scores from performances of polyphonic music recorded on keyboard (or other polyphonic) instruments; for improving quantisation results within a transcription syste...

Sexuality and eroticism are present in all of opera’s interwoven ‘layers’, broadly: drama, music and singing. Interaction with the resulting whole evokes an emotional response in the listener/audience that is erotic in nature. Lacanian psychoanalytic theory pertaining to the gaze and, in particular, the voice provides a useful framework to explore the sexuality and eroticism within and beyond o...

This article relates two categories of music-theoretical graphs, in which points represent notes and chords, respectively. It unifies previous work by Brower, Callender, Cohn, Douthett, Gollin, O’Connell, Quinn, Steinbach, and myself, while also introducing new models of voice-leading structure—including a three-note octahedral Tonnetz and tetrahedral models of four-note diatonic and chromatic ...