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Convention Paper

VOTA Utility: Making the Computer Sing

Authors: Fonseca, Nuno

AES Convention 114 · Paper 5816 · March 2003

Abstract

After several years, trying to emulate real musical instruments, it's time to emulate a real choir, but with a new challenge ' Text. This paper presents a software solution (based on sampling, not on synthesis) to make the computer sing text. You write the text, play the keyboard (or any MIDI device or sequencer), and hear the choir singing in realtime.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 114
AES Convention
114
Paper number
5816
Publication date
March 6, 2003
Session subject
Computer Audio and Networks
Affiliation
Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper