Articulatory synthesis of singing
Peter Birkholz · 2007
A system for the synthesis of singing on the basis of an ar-ticulatory speech synthesizer is presented. To enable the synthe-sis of singing, the speech synthesizer was extended in many re-spects. Most importantly, a rule-based transformation of a mu-sical score into a gestural score for articulatory gestures was de-veloped. Furthermore, a pitch-dependent articulation of vowels was implemented. The results of these extensions are demon-strated by the synthesis of the canon “Dona nobis pacem”. The two voices in the canon were generated with the same under-lying articulatory models and the same musical score, the only difference being that their pitches differ by one octave. Index Terms: Articulatory singing synthesis 1.