Singing voice impersonator application for PC
Maarten P. Boer, Jordi Bonada, Pedro Cano, Àlex Loscos, Xavier Serra · RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) · 2000
This paper presents the implementation aspects of a real-time system for morphing two voices in the context of a karaoke application. It describes the software design and implementation under a PC platform and it discusses platform specific issues to attain the minimum system delay. 1. Introduction Singing voice conversion can be defined as the conversion of the voice quality from one singer to another. The impersonator application we present in this paper makes use of a conversion that gives a specific individuality to the synthesized voice. The goal is to come up with a karaoke-type application for PC in which the user can sing like his/her favorite singers. In order to incorporate to the user's voice the corresponding characteristics of the "target" voice, the "target" voice is recorded and analyzed beforehand. Then the system performs a real-time morphing between the user's voice and the pre-stored analysis of the target voice. The user is able to control the degree of morphin...