Presence of appropriate acoustic cues of affective features in the synthesized speech can be a prerequisite for the proper evaluation of the semantic content by the message recipient. In the recent work the authors have focused on the research of expressive speech synthesis capable of generating naturally sounding synthetic speech at various levels of arousal. Automatic information and warning ...

Cloud computing potentially ushers in a new era of computer music performance with exceptionally large computer music instruments consisting of 10s to 100s of virtual machines which we propose to call a ‘cloud-orchestra’. Cloud computing allows for the rapid provisioning of resources, but to deploy such a complicated and interconnected network of software synthesizers in the cloud requires a lo...

In this article, we develop the theory of a special type optoelectronic phase-locked loop (PLL). The output signal PLL is in electrical domain and its reference oscillator, typically mode-locked laser, operates optical domain. uses balanced microwave phase detector (BOMPD). order to model PLL, nonlinear characteristic function gain BOMPD are derived analytically. Using results analysis, an usin...

Cloud computing potentially ushers in a new era of computer music performance with exceptionally large computer music instruments consisting of 10s to 100s of virtual machines called a Cloud Orchestra. Cloud computing allows for the rapid provisioning of resources, but to deploy such a complicated and interconnected network of software synthesizers in the cloud requires a lot of manual work, sy...

A general impedance synthesizer using a minimum number of switching converters is studied in this paper. We begin with showing that any impedance can be synthesized by a circuit consisting of only two simple power converters, one storage element (e.g., capacitor), and one dissipative element (e.g., resistor) or power source. The implementation of such a circuit for synthesizing any desired impe...

This paper will discuss how to determine word stress from spelling. Stress assignment is a well-established weak point for many speech synthesizers because stress dependencies cannot be determined locally. It is impossible to determine the stress of a word by looking through a five or six character window, as many speech synthesizers do. Wellknown examples such as degrade / dbgradl, tion and tM...

Samplers are traditionally distinguished from synthesizers according to their input data: raw audio for samplers or model-based representation for synthesizers. We would like to introduce here a somewhat intermediary concept by taking advantage of the remarkable flexibility and power of a combined use of a real-time environment such as Max/MSP and an audio-signal model description standard such...