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Structural Decomposition of Recorded Vocal Performances and It's Application to Intelligent Audio Editing

Authors: Fazekas, György; Sandler, Mark

AES Convention 123 · Paper 7249 · October 2007

Abstract

In an intelligent editing environment, the semantic music structure can be used as beneficial assistance during the post production process. In this paper we propose a new approach to extract both low and high level hierarchical structure from vocal tracks of multi-track master recordings. Contrary to most segmentation methods for polyphonic audio, we utilize extra information available when analyzing a single audio track. A sequence of symbols is derived using a hierarchical decomposition method involving onset detection, pitch tracking and timbre modelling to capture phonetic similarity. Results show that the applied model well captures similarity of short voice segments.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 123
AES Convention
123
Paper number
7249
Publication date
October 6, 2007
Session subject
Signal Processing Applied To Music
Affiliation
Queen Mary University of London (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper