[sdiy] (OT) VOCALOID vocal synthesis

[Theo]

There where audio demos of VOCALIOD on the cover CD of a Dutch music mag.
(Interface) some months ago.
The Japanese sung vocals where quite impressive.
However the program was not done and English sounded, well err, Engrish.

>From what I heard it would not surprise me if Vocaloid will make background
singers job-less.
And for some music styles it will be a true blessing, as the producers can
now  select the bimbo(m/f) only on its looks.
A faint shade of singing talent (and a autotune plugin) will no longer be
needed.

Cheers,
Theo


----- Original Message -----
From: Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 5:48 PM
Subject: [sdiy] (OT) VOCALOID vocal synthesis


> While not DIY at all but since voice synthesis pops up from time to
> time... I just stumbled across this:
>
> http://www.global.yamaha.com/news/20030304b.html
>
> The "technical" part of the announcement reads like this:
>
> \begin{quote}
>
> VOCALOID uses Frequency-Domain Singing Articulation Splicing and Shaping,
> a vocal (singing-voice) synthesizing system developed by Yamaha.
>
> With this system, the singing articulations (collections of voice
> snippets, such as of syllables, and snippets of vocal expression
> variations like vibrato) needed to reproduce vocals are collected from
> custom-produced recordings of accomplished singers and put into a database
> after conversion into frequency domains.
>
> To synthesize vocal parts, the system retrieves data consisting of voice
> snippets, applies pitch conversion, and splices and shapes them to form
> the words of a song as input by the user. As this processing is done at
> the frequency-domain level, pitch can be easily changed according to the
> specified melody, and the voice snippets can be spliced in a way that
> reproduces smooth-flowing words.
>
> \end{quote}
>
> Makes me wonder, what use the music industry will make of this
> technology.
>
> Rainer