Synthesizing asli Malay song: Transforming spoken voices into singing voices

Abstract

Singing voices are consist of frequency related to musical pitch and fundamental frequency (F0) fluctuation such as vibrato, overshoot, preparation and fine fluctuation. Singing Malay asli music requires the singer to perform another type of fluctuation in singing called patah lagu, at every central note or any suitable longer notes. This paper discusses the construction of speech and singing corpus, and the F0 analysis of patah lagu for speech to singing synthesis application. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore.