Singing Voice and Artificial Intelligence reading group¶

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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)
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26/01/2021

• Prof. Frank Scherbaum : "Musicology of the Earth to Computational Ethnomusicology of Traditional Georgian Vocal Music"

24/11

• Matan Gover Score-informed source separation of choral music

17/11

• Emir Demirel TBA

27/10

• Helene Cuesta and Sebastian Rosenzweig: "Polyphonic Singing Datasets for MIR Research"

20/10

• ISMIR reports
• Brendan O'Connor: ""An Exploratory Study of Perceptual Spaces of the Singing Voice”

29/09

• Bernd Brabec de Mori & Victor A. Stoichițӑ: "Postures of listening and vocal agencies" abstract and bios, video

22/09

• Pritish Chandna: ""Deep Learning Applied to SATB Choirs"
• Kilian Schulze-Foster: "Text-Informed Singing Voice Separation and Phoneme Level Lyrics Alignment"

18/08

• Courtney Reed: Singer's auditory imagery with altered auditory feedback abstract

07/07

• Prof. Johan Sundberg : Physiological and acoustical aspects of phonation types - video

30/06

• Prof. David Howard : "Pitch in singing is not all one might think it is."

19/05

• Emir Demirel on prosody and pronunciation in singing

17/03

• Paper quick read and discussion: "CONTENT BASED SINGING VOICE EXTRACTION FROM A MUSICAL MIXTURE"
  on Skype: https://join.skype.com/ddb39kV1HHvk

11/02

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

21/01/2020

• Singing voice generation

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

29/10 : Laws 3.06

• Expressivity in singing: paper suggestions

22/10 : Laws 3.06

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

15/10 : Laws 3.06

• Vocal physiology

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

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

17/09   : Laws 3.08D

• Charis Saitis on his research on timbre and its applications to singing voice

10/09 : ArtsOne 1.25

• Polina on PEVoC 2019

23/07

• VocalSet with Courtney and Emir

16/07 : Bancroft: 1.03

• Emir reports from UK Speech Conference
• Emir introduces DAMP Intonation dataset
• Polina: report from FMA

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

18/06 : GC604

• Chris 10 min presentation
• Emir presenting his poster for UK Speech Conference

11/06 : GC604

• 10 min presentations:

• Wenming
• Yukun

• Datasets

04/06

• 10 min presentations:

• Courtney
• Brendan

• Datasets

28/05/19 : ITL¶

• First meeting,
• introduction,
• coordination