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Formant-based Synthesis of Singing Sten Ternström and Johan Sundberg KTH Music Acoustics, Speech Music and Hearing, Stockholm. This is the legacy source-filter technique, with some minor updates The sound is generated from scratch - no prior recordings of voices
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Formant-based Synthesis of SingingSten Ternström and Johan SundbergKTH Music Acoustics, Speech Music and Hearing, Stockholm • This is the legacy source-filter technique, with some minor updates • The sound is generated from scratch- no prior recordings of voices • The synthesizer is driven by the same rule systemplatform as the text-to-speech systems pioneered by Carlson & Granström • Rules for music performance and singinghave been added gradually over decades
Rules in RULSYS syntax Flat text transcription of the Score Description of the Singer Rule system parameters Layout audio output Synthesis Engine • interactive control
Rules Singer definitions Input data Score
Parameter file L E TMI SI NG 28 parameters100 frames/sec
Synthesizer highlights • source waveform: a train of sinc pulses, filtered to measure • here: spectrum slope covaries with source amplitude • adjustable L0, cutoff, vibrato and flutter • 8 formants in cascade, F6-F8 fixed • no source-filter interaction • fricative branch with two formant filters • no nasal branch • sample rate 16 kHz • runs on DSP hardware, 32-bit floating point
Synthesizer relative level of the fundamental fundamental frequency vibrato extent vibrato frequency flutter extent flutter center frequency flutter bandwidth vocal intensity spectrum slope glottal amplitude delta-L0 high cutoff T0 gain Sinc pulsegenerator HP @ 25 Hz DC blocker Variable slope filter Notchfilter LP filter-24 dB/oct aspiration Fn, Bn Noise Formant chain F1...F8 Zero 1.8 kHz HP2 + + output frication Fricative filters K1, K2
LTAS Bass, entire verse Soprano, entire verse