Singing synthesis

Over at Microsoft's research lab, they've built a singing speech synthesiser. You define a song in terms of lyrics and music (via MIDI), and Whistler will render the song with vocals. The example of 'Mark' singing Penny Lane sounds a lot like Kermit the frog. It doesn't look like you can download the program, nor does it look to be open source, so I guess all you can do for now is listen to the three audio samples. Still... it's pretty neat.

Read more at the Whistler Page at Microsoft.

Posted on: Jul 12, 2004

Posted by: plamere

Category: Synthesis

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Hi Paul, check out http://www.vocaloid.com/ for commercially available product like this. I've heard it singing and can't complain :)

Posted by peter p on July 13, 2004 at 08:20 AM EDT #

Thanks Peter, I listened to the demos and it does sound quite good.

Posted by Paul on July 13, 2004 at 10:56 AM EDT #

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