ARJ » voice http://www.arj.no Alexander Refsum Jensenius Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:54:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Janer’s dissertation http://www.arj.no/2008/05/23/janers-dissertation/ http://www.arj.no/2008/05/23/janers-dissertation/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 12:37:56 +0000 alexarje http://www.arj.no/2008/05/23/janers-dissertation/ I had a quick read of Jordi Janer’s dissertation today: Singing-Driven Interfaces for Sound Synthesizers. The dissertation presents a good overview of various types of voice analysis techniques, and suggestions for various ways of using the voice as a controller for synthesis. I am particularly interested in his suggestion of a GDIF namespace for structuring parameters for voice control:

/gdif/instrumental/excitation/loudness x
/gdif/instrumental/modulation/pitch x
/gdif/instrumental/modulation/formants x1 x2
/gdif/instrumental/modulation/breathiness x
/gdif/instrumental/selection/phoneticclass x

Here he is using Cadoz’ division of various types of instrumental “gestures”: excitation, modulation and selection, something which would also make sense for describing other types of instrumental actions.

I am looking forward to getting back to working on GDIF again soon, I just need to finish this semester’s teaching + administrative work + moving into our new lab first…

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