The synthesis of sound textures, such as rain, wind, or crowds, is an important application for
cinema, multimedia creation, games and installations. However, despite the clearly defined …

The precise control of singing techniques is of utmost importance in achieving emotionally
expressive vocal performances. To bridge the gap between current Singing Voice Synthesis …

Adaptive concatenative sound synthesis (ACSS) is a recent technique for generating and
transform-ing digital sound. Variations of sounds are synthesized from short segments of …

EP 1139227 A2 10, 2001 EP 1139337 10, 2001 EP 1509065 2, 2005 JP 10039897 A 2,
1998 JP 2OOOOO4494. A 1, 2000 JP 2000332677 A 11, 2000 JP 20025 15608 A 5, 2002 …

EP 1139227 A2 10, 2001 EP 1139337 10, 2001 EP 1509065 2, 2005 JP 10039897 A 2,
1998 JP 2OOOOO4494. A 1, 2000 JP 2000332677 A 11, 2000 JP 20025 15608 A 5, 2002 …

(51) Int. Cl. Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods GIOL 2L/00(2013.01)
and apparatus that may be applied in a Voice communications 52) USC and/or storage …

US PATENT DOCUMENTS 7,162,212 B2 1/2007 Bennetts et al. 7,165,030 B2 1, 2007 Yi et
al. 7,174,022 B1 2/2007 Zhang 7,260,536 B1 8, 2007 Abu-Samaha 7,295,972 B2 11/2007 …

This thesis researches practice-motivated organization of digital audio in the context of
sound-based music, including modeling, structuring, characterization, and visualization. It is …

In this paper we introduce a framework that represents environmental texture sounds as a
linear superposition of independent foreground and background layers that roughly …

Sound texture modeling is a widely used concept in computer music. Although, a concrete
definition of sound texture is elusive, with this thesis I try to determine the scope of the …