A classification of Byzantine singing voices based on singer´s formant

Author

Delviniotis, D.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

1998

fDate

8-11 Sept. 1998

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A classification of different singing voices of Greek psaltes (chanters) of the Church, based on the relative positions and shapes of the ≪singer´s formant≫ (SF) is presented. It was found that there are 8 categories defined on basis of the following criteria: (1) the location of the center of the clustered vowels in the corre-logram (F3-F4), (2) the maximum of F3 and minimum of F4 or F5, (3) the clustering of F3-F4-F5, and, (4) the variability of singer´s formant shape among vowels of individual psaltic voice. There are two main singer´s formants contrary to that (only one) of famous opera male singers.

Keywords

signal classification; speech processing; Byzantine singing voice classification; Church; F3-F4-F5 clustering; Greek chanters; Greek psaltes; SF; clustered vowels; correlogram; maximum F3; minimum F4; minimum F5; opera male singers; psaltic voice vowels; relative positions; relative shapes; singer formant; singer formant shape variability; Color; Harmonic analysis; Larynx; Music; Power harmonic filters; Shape; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 1998), 9th European

Conference_Location

Rhodes

Print_ISBN

978-960-7620-06-4

Type

conf

Filename

7089751