The paper describes a technique allowing to conceal or mitigate long gaps (up to 0.5 second) in music programs. Missing content is replaced by signal synthesized from spectral models using data surrounding the gap. Tonal components are synthesized using a sinusoidal model. A heuristic adaptive algorithm is employed to link model parameters across the gap. Prior to linking, sinusoidal partials a...

In this paper, we present a sonification strategy developed for electric vehicles aiming to synthetize new engine sound enhance the driver’s dynamic perception of vehicle. We chose mimic internal combustion (ICE) noise by informing driver through pitch variations. However, ICE variations are correlated engine’s rotations per minute (RPM) and its dynamics is covered within limited vehicle speed ...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Grouping of musical sounds 3.1. Perceptual fusion and separation of spectral components 3.1.1. Harmonicity 3.1.2. Onset and time-varying synchronicity 3.2. Auditory continuity effects 3.3. Grouping of rapid sequences of tones 3.3.1. Grouping by pitch proximity 3.3.2. Grouping by timbre 3.3.3. Grouping by temporal proximity 4. Grouping of tone sequences from differ...

A system for transferring vocal expressions separately from singing voices with accompaniment to singing voice synthesizers is described. The expressions appear as fluctuations in the fundamental frequency contour of the singing voice, such as vibrato, glissando, and kobushi. The fundamental frequency contour of the singing voice is estimated using the subharmonic summation in a limited frequen...

East Asian Languages such as Mandarin do have lexical tones in their phonological system. Pronounced in isolation, the fundamental frequency contours produced by these tones are relatively stable and their shapes well described phonetically. However, modifications can occur, not only in the well known case where two consecutive third tones are realized with a tone two tone three sequence, but i...

We present an approach to model the temporal evolution of audio descriptors using Segmental Models (SMs). This method yields a signal segmentation into a sequence of primitives, constituted by a set of user-defined trajectories . This allows one to consider specific primitive shapes, model their duration and to take into account the time dependence between successive signal frames, contrary to ...

The purpose of this paper is to consider the contribution of prosody to discourse analysis in interaction by means of a concrete example, i.e., the analysis of bonjour, a French greeting. In this experiment, naïve subjects were made to listen to a series of French politeness formulae taken from real interactions and asked to evaluate the degree of politeness they perceived. Two hypotheses were ...

Biomechanical modeling and bifurcation theory are applied to study phonation onset and register transition. A four-mass body-cover model with a smooth geometry is introduced to reproduce characteristic features of chest and falsetto registers. Sub- and supraglottal resonances are modeled using a wave-reflection model. Simulations for increasing and decreasing subglottal pressure reveal that the...

Trisutji Kamal, whose career spanned five decades, was one of the oldest and longest-performing Indonesian female classical composers. Her music is tinged with a unique character, stemming from way she inserted Javanese nuances into Western framework her art. To discuss this musical style, authors analysed most well-known compositions in form an opera, called Loro Jonggrang. The article examine...