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Conference Paper

Improved Harmonic+Noise Model for Vocal and Musical Instrument Sounds

Authors: Dubnov, Shlomo

AES Conference: 22nd International Conference: Virtual, Synthetic, and Entertainment Audio · Paper 000250 · June 2002

Abstract

The paper presents an improvement to Harmonic+Noise models for quality analysis/synthesis of vocal and monophonic music instrument sounds. So far these models were considered not to offer sufficient quality for modeling of singing voice or music instruments. The problems with HMN model are presented and it is shown that it can not handle certain specific types of music instruments as well as highly reverberant recordings. In this paper we present a new analysis method that significantly improves the HNM performance. The main difficulty in the estimation of the stochastic part of the signal is overcome using non-linear (polyspectral) methods.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 22nd International Conference: Virtual, Synthetic, and Entertainment Audio
Paper number
000250
Publication date
June 6, 2002
Session subject
Virtual, Synthetic and Entertainment Audio
Affiliation
Department of Communication Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper