Abstract
Evaluation of singing skill is a popular function of karaoke machines. Here, we introduce a different aspect of evaluating the singing voice of an amateur singer: "singing enthusiasm". First, we investigated whether human listeners can evaluate singing enthusiasm consistently and whether the listener's perception matches the singer's intended enthusiasm. We then identified three acoustic features relevant to the perception of singing enthusiasm: A-weighted power, "fall-down", and vibrato extent. Finally, we developed a method for combining the selected three features to estimate the value of singing enthusiasm, and obtained a correlation coefficient of 0.65 between the estimated value and human evaluation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 501-517 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Computer Speech and Language |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 Mar 1 |
Keywords
- Karaoke
- Perception of singing voice
- Singing enthusiasm
- Singing voice
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Human-Computer Interaction
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Daido, R., Ito, M., Makino, S., & Ito, A. (2014). Automatic evaluation of singing enthusiasm for karaoke. Computer Speech and Language, 28(2), 501-517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2012.07.007