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A Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer Modeling Timbre and Expression from Natural Songs
| Title | A Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer Modeling Timbre and Expression from Natural Songs |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2017 |
| Authors | Blaauw, M. , & Bonada J. |
| Journal Title | Applied Sciences |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Journal Date | 12/2017 |
| ISSN | 2076-3417 |
| Abstract | We recently presented a new model for singing synthesis based on a modified version of the WaveNet architecture. Instead of modeling raw waveform, we model features produced by a parametric vocoder that separates the influence of pitch and timbre. This allows conveniently modifying pitch to match any target melody, facilitates training on more modest dataset sizes, and significantly reduces training and generation times. Nonetheless, compared to modeling waveform directly, ways of effectively handling higher-dimensional outputs, multiple feature streams and regularization become more important with our approach. In this work, we extend our proposed system to include additional components for predicting F0 and phonetic timings from a musical score with lyrics. These expression-related features are learned together with timbrical features from a single set of natural songs. We compare our method to existing statistical parametric, concatenative, and neural network-based approaches using quantitative metrics as well as listening tests. |
| preprint/postprint document | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/37284 |
| Final publication | https://doi.org/10.3390/app7121313 |
