The Application of a Synthesis-by-Rule System to Singing

Much has been accomplished in the area of speech technology in order that machines can talk to people. Various stringing techniques such as phoneme, allophone and diphone have been demonstrated to give those machines virtually unlimited vocabularies. The subject to be covered in this paper is not a new speech construction technique, but how a construction technnque can be combined with a speech synthesizer to allow the machine to sing. The system which will be discussed uses linear predictive coding (LPC) as its synthesis method and allophiones as its constructoin technique. In this paper, each segment of the system will be discussed in some detail.