3 accepted papers
We introduce the SECL-UMons dataset for sound event classification and localization in the context of office environments. The multichannel dataset is composed of 11 event classes recorded at several realistic positions in two different rooms. The dataset comprises two types of sequences according t…
“Human BeatBox” (HBB) is a newly expanding contemporary singing style where the vocalist imitates drum beats percussive sounds as well as pitched musical instrument sounds. Drum sounds typically use a notation based on plosives and fricatives, and instrument sounds cover vocalisations that go beyond…
This paper presents an HMM-based synthesis approach for speechlaughs. The building stone of this project was the idea of the co-occurrence of smile and laughter bursts in varying proportions within amused speech utterances. A corpus with three complementary speaking styles was used to train the unde…