Singing Voice Synthesis Combining Excitation plus Resonance and Sinusoidal plus Residual Models
Jordi Bonada, Òscar Celma, Àlex Loscos, Jaume Ortolà, Xavier Serra, Yasuo Yoshioka, Hiraku Kayama, Yuji Hisaminato, Hideki Kenmochi · RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) · 2001
This paper presents an approach to the modeling of the singing voice with a particular emphasis on the naturalness of the resulting synthetic voice. The underlying analysis/synthesis technique is based on the Spectral Modeling Synthesis (SMS) and a newly developed Excitation plus Resonance (EpR) model. With this approach a complete singing voice synthesizer is developed that generates a vocal melody out of the score and the phonetic transcription of a song.