Singing Voice Interest Group

h1. Singing Voice and Artificial Intelligence reading group

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"topics suggestions":https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MNOhxEJjgWFxFf8d0cX9HtWgvqPXM5Cr6YxZsEwZGBc/edit?usp=sharing

[[papers to discuss]]

"Datasets":https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JeV58fUVYvVT4kp-dD-npUGGGoIM_evBT-5Re93USbc/edit?usp=sharing 

our "youTube channel":https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkH6d-ZqvTTJVJsHFF9_BKQ

During lockdown the meetings take place on Zoom at 3 pm BST (London), 4 pm W.Europe (Paris, Berlin), 7:30 pm IST (Mumbai), 11 pm JST (Japan), 10 am EDT  (New York), 7 am PDT (San Francisco)

Contact: proutskova at gmail dot com

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h2. 26/01/2021

* Prof. "Frank Scherbaum":http://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/member-details/show/96.html : "Musicology of the Earth to Computational Ethnomusicology of Traditional Georgian Vocal Music" 

h2. 17/11

* Emir Demirel TBA

h2. 27/10

* Helene Cuesta and Sebastian Rosenzweig: [["Polyphonic Singing Datasets for MIR Research"]]

h2. 29/09

* Bernd Brabec de Mori & Victor A. Stoichițӑ: *"Postures of listening and vocal agencies"* [[abstract and bios]], "video":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k73J9fg_WJk&feature=youtu.be

h2. 22/09

* Pritish Chandna: [[""Deep Learning Applied to SATB Choirs"]]

* Kilian Schulze-Foster: [["Text-Informed Singing Voice Separation and Phoneme Level Lyrics Alignment"]]

h2. 18/08 

* Courtney Reed: Singer's auditory imagery with altered auditory feedback [[abstract]]

h2. 07/07

* Prof. "Johan Sundberg":https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Johan_Sundberg : Physiological and acoustical aspects of phonation types - "video":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwQQzYvX08o&t=2s

h2. 30/06

* Prof. "David Howard":http://www.davidmhoward.com/?LMCL=fuiq8C : "Pitch in singing is not all one might think it is."

h2. 19/05

* Emir Demirel on [[prosody and pronunciation in singing]]

h2. 17/03

* Paper quick read and discussion: [["CONTENT BASED SINGING VOICE EXTRACTION FROM A MUSICAL MIXTURE"]]

on Skype: https://join.skype.com/ddb39kV1HHvk

h2. 11/02

* Singing voice generation: [["A Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer Modeling Timbre and Expression from Natural Songs"]]

h2. 21/01/2020

* [[Singing voice generation]]

h2. 10/12 

*4 pm GC114*

* [[Universality and diversity in human song]] - discussing the Science paper from the Natural History of Song project

*5 pm : SCR bar*

* _*[[Christmas Big Sing!]]*_

* join us to sing Christmas songs from different cultures. Bring songs from your country and teach us

h2. 29/10 : Laws 3.06

* Expressivity in singing: paper [[suggestions]]

h2. 22/10 : Laws 3.06

* Prof. Simon Dixon: "Measuring and Modelling Intonation and Temperament"

h2. 15/10 : Laws 3.06

* Vocal physiology 

h2. 01/10  NB different time slot! *2- 3 pm* : Laws 3.08C

* Wenming Gui on his research into singing voice detection and deep learning

h2. 17/09            : Laws 3.08D

* [[Charis Saitis]] on his research on timbre and its applications to singing voice

h2. 10/09            : ArtsOne 1.25

* "Polina on PEVoC 2019":https://photos.app.goo.gl/tnnywH3xFijM1DpJ9

h2. 23/07

* [[VocalSet with Courtney and Emir]]

h2. 16/07            : Bancroft: 1.03

* Emir reports from UK Speech Conference

* Emir introduces [[DAMP Intonation dataset]]

* Polina: [[report from FMA]]

h2. 02/07            : Eng402 Daphne Oram room

Small group, short topics

* [[Synthetic Voice Datasets]]

* [[Research on Vocal Tract transformations]]

* Informal discussion on vocal differences between cultures and classes

h2. 18/06            : GC604         

* [[Chris 10 min presentation]]

* Emir presenting his [[poster for UK Speech Conference]]

h2. 11/06             : GC604         

* 10 min presentations: 

> * [[Wenming]] 

> * [[Yukun]]

* "Datasets":https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JeV58fUVYvVT4kp-dD-npUGGGoIM_evBT-5Re93USbc/edit?usp=sharing

h2. 04/06                                 

* 10 min presentations: 

> * [[Courtney]]

> * [[Brendan]] 

* [[Datasets]]

h2. 28/05/19      :  ITL

* First meeting, 

* [[introduction]],  

* [[coordination]]