• DocumentCode
    3083912
  • Title

    A system for synthesis of backing vocals by intelligent harmonization

  • Author

    Von dem Knesebeck, Adrian ; Kraft, Sebastian ; Zölzer, Udo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Signal Process. & Commun., Helmut-Schmidt-Univ., Hamburg, Germany
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    6-8 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    A system for the synthesis of backing vocals by pitch shifting of a lead vocal signal is presented. The harmonization of the backing vocals is based on the chords, which are retrieved from an accompanying instrument. The system operates completely autonomous without the need to provide the key of the performed song. This simplifies the handling of the harmonization effect. The system is designed to have real-time capability to be used as a live sound effect.
  • Keywords
    speech processing; backing vocal synthesis; chord detection; intelligent harmonization; lead vocal signal; pitch shifting; voice processing; Detectors; Hidden Markov models; Instruments; Modulation; Real time systems; Robustness; Synthesizers; Harmonization; chord detection; pitch detection; pitch shifting; voice processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2011 17th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Corfu
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0273-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDSP.2011.6004989
  • Filename
    6004989