Unisong: A Choir Singing Synthesizer

Blaauw M, Bonada J, Hideki K, Loscos A. Unisong: A Choir Singing Synthesizer. In: AES Convention 121. Audio Engineering Society; 2006. Paper 6933. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13767

@inproceedings{Blaauw2006_13767,
  author = {Blaauw, Merlijn and Bonada, Jordi and Hideki, Kenmochi and Loscos, Alex},
  title = {{Unisong: A Choir Singing Synthesizer}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 121},
  note = {Paper 6933},
  year = {2006},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13767}
}

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TI  - Unisong: A Choir Singing Synthesizer
AU  - Blaauw, Merlijn
AU  - Bonada, Jordi
AU  - Hideki, Kenmochi
AU  - Loscos, Alex
T2  - AES Convention 121
M1  - Paper 6933
PY  - 2006
DA  - 2006/10/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Computer generated singing choir synthesis can be achieved by two means: clone transformation of a single voice or concatenation of real choir recording snippets. As of today, the synthesis quality for these two methods lack of naturalness and intelligibility respectively. Unisong is a new concatenation based choir singing synthesizer able to generate a high quality synthetic performance of the score and lyrics specified by the user. This article describes all actions and techniques that take place in the process of virtual synthesis generation: choir recording scripts design and realization, human supervised automatic segmentation of the recordings, creation of samples database, and sample acquiring, transformation and concatenation. The synthesizer will be demonstrated with song sample.
ER  -