Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2011-07-12
2011-07-12
Donels, Jeffrey (Department: 2832)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
C704S262000, C704S270000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07977562
ABSTRACT:
Various technologies for generating a synthesized singing voice waveform. In one implementation, the computer program may receive a request from a user to create a synthesized singing voice using the lyrics of a song and a digital file containing its melody as inputs. The computer program may then dissect the lyrics' text and its melody file into its corresponding sub-phonemic units and musical score respectively. The musical score may be further dissected into a sequence of musical notes and duration times for each musical note. The computer program may then determine a fundamental frequency (F0), or pitch, of each musical note.
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Qian Yao
Soong Frank
Collins L. Alan
Collins & Collins Incorporated
Donels Jeffrey
Microsoft Corporation
Millikin Andrew R
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