An artificial intelligence approach to concatenative sound synthesis
Noris Mohd Norowi · 2013
iii Content Overview v-vii List of Figures viii-x List of Tables xi-xii List of Abbreviations xiii-xiv Acknowledgments xv-xvi Author’s Declaration xvii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Motivation 1 1.2 Introduction 7 1.3 Objectives 14 1.4 Thesis Structure 18 CHAPTER 2: PRINCIPLES OF CONCATENATIVE SOUND SYNTHESIS 20 2.1 Sound Synthesis 20 2.1.1 Rule-based Model 23 2.1.2 Data-driven Model 27 2.2 Sub-Areas of Data-driven Concatenative Sound Synthesis 29 2.2.1 Concatenative Speech Synthesis 29 2.2.2 Concatenative Singing Voice Synthesis 32 2.2.3 Concatenative Synthesis for Music 33 2.3 Technical Overview of Concatenative Sound Synthesis 36 2.3.1 Database 36 2.3.2 Target Unit 37 2.3.3 Segmentation 37 2.3.4 Audio Feature Extraction 39 2.3.5 Unit Selection 51 2.4 Summary 55