Title :
Singing synthesis as a new musical instrument
Author :
Kenmochi, Hideki
Author_Institution :
Yamaha+ Div., Yamaha Corp., Shizuoka, Japan
Abstract :
Singing synthesis technology is changing musical situation in Japan recently. There are a lot of original compositions using singing synthesis softwares such as Vocaloid in a video site Niko Niko Douga or YouTube. Hit songs in the video sites are remastered and published as CDs from major record companies. There are also various types of derivative products and services. The author would like to discuss this phenomenon in detail.
Keywords :
music; musical instruments; social networking (online); speech synthesis; Japan; Niko Niko Douga; Vocaloid; YouTube; musical instrument; singing synthesis softwares; video site; Companies; Engines; Libraries; Software; Synthesizers; Timbre; music; singing synthesis; vocaloid;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0045-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-6149
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6289138
