The majority of music in the world employs multiple concurrent parts. Among these parts, the upper-most part or voice often carries the melody. Considering the upward spread of auditory masking patterns, one might think the high-voice melodies are conflicting with masking theory. In this paper, we investigate the mutual masking effects of concurrent highand low-pitched complex tones. In additio...

Background in music psychology. It is widely accepted among professional singers and vocal teachers that there is a relationship between a singer’s posture and the quality of their voice. Behavioral studies have shown that listeners are able to detect differences in the quality of the singing voice by listening to simple recordings (e.g., Mitchell & Kenny, 2007), while observers are very sensit...

This paper presents a new hardware interface using a microcontroller which processes audio music signals to standard MIDI data. A technique for processing music signals by extracting note parameters from music signals is described. An algorithm to convert the voice samples for real-time processing without complex calculations is proposed. A high frequency microcontroller as the main processor i...

The measurement of (excessive) stress is still a challenging endeavor. Most tools rely on either introspection or expert opinion and are, therefore, often less reliable or a burden on the patient. An objective method could relieve these problems and, consequently, assist diagnostics. Speech was considered an excellent candidate for an objective, unobtrusive measure of emotion. True stress was s...

Previous analyses on friendly speech were made using dialogues without differentiating their linguistic functions. This paper reports an analysis on declarative and interrogative sentences respectively. Pitch and duration of prosodic words were statistically analyzed and compared concerning factors of their positions and stresses. Based on the acoustic investigation of friendly speech, tonal pi...

This article provides justification for the minority scholar trained in ‘elite’ music analysis (my term) to apply voice-leading rock band Indian Ocean’s fusion number Kandisa. In so doi...

Speaker fundamental frequency often stands as equivalent to the auditory measurement of average speaking (vocal) pitch. Previously found effects regarding higher estimations of average speaking pitch vs. average F0 for female voices have been fully replicated in an identification experiment involving 13 subjects. For female voices the average value of a given group of experts measuring average ...

A procedure to remove vibrato from singing voice was proposed to enable auditory morphing between musical performances played under different conditions. Analyses of singing samples in the RWC music database using a speech analysis, modification and synthesis system STRAIGHT provided necessary information to implement “senza vibrato,” the procedure that removes vibrato. A preliminary subjective...