Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis
This paper studies the issues surrounding the search and selection process in a general CSS system which may affect the synthesis result, namely the homosonic segments. Homosonic segments are first termed in this study, where it refers to audio files which have one or more of the same sonic properti...
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| author | Mohd Norowi, Noris Mustaffa, Mas Rina Miranda, Eduardo Reck |
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| description | This paper studies the issues surrounding the search and selection process in a general CSS system which may affect the synthesis result, namely the homosonic segments. Homosonic segments are first termed in this study, where it refers to audio files which have one or more of the same sonic properties with each other, but do not sound the same acoustically when played due to the limited audio features extracted during the analysis process. These homosonic segments create confusions within the CSS selection engine. This study proposes a robust solution to overcome this issue by introducing the concatenation cost in addition to the regular target cost. The experiment conducted in this study observes that the use of concatenation cost to help solve the problem is feasible. Further evaluation also suggests that the concatenation cost is an effective solution in solving the challenges involving homosonic segments as the sounds synthesised through concatenation cost function have a better accuracy and possess higher fluency when concatenated from one segment to the next. |
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| spelling | upm-556752017-06-07T04:52:18Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55675/ Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis Mohd Norowi, Noris Mustaffa, Mas Rina Miranda, Eduardo Reck This paper studies the issues surrounding the search and selection process in a general CSS system which may affect the synthesis result, namely the homosonic segments. Homosonic segments are first termed in this study, where it refers to audio files which have one or more of the same sonic properties with each other, but do not sound the same acoustically when played due to the limited audio features extracted during the analysis process. These homosonic segments create confusions within the CSS selection engine. This study proposes a robust solution to overcome this issue by introducing the concatenation cost in addition to the regular target cost. The experiment conducted in this study observes that the use of concatenation cost to help solve the problem is feasible. Further evaluation also suggests that the concatenation cost is an effective solution in solving the challenges involving homosonic segments as the sounds synthesised through concatenation cost function have a better accuracy and possess higher fluency when concatenated from one segment to the next. IEEE 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55675/1/Using%20concatenation%20cost%20for%20unit%20selection%20of%20homosonic%20segments%20in%20concatenative%20sound%20synthesis.pdf Mohd Norowi, Noris and Mustaffa, Mas Rina and Miranda, Eduardo Reck (2016) Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis. In: 2016 Third International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (CAMP'16), 23-24 Aug. 2016, Hatten Hotel Melaka, Malaysia. (pp. 37-42). 10.1109/INFRKM.2016.7806331 |
| spellingShingle | Mohd Norowi, Noris Mustaffa, Mas Rina Miranda, Eduardo Reck Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis |
| title | Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis |
| title_full | Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis |
| title_fullStr | Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis |
| title_short | Using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis |
| title_sort | using concatenation cost for unit selection of homosonic segments in concatenative sound synthesis |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55675/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55675/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55675/1/Using%20concatenation%20cost%20for%20unit%20selection%20of%20homosonic%20segments%20in%20concatenative%20sound%20synthesis.pdf |