VOCAL DATA FORMING DEVICE, VOCAL DATA FORMING METHOD AND SINGING TONE SYNTHESIZER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize natural singing by a virtual singer made to meet accompani ment by uttering phonemes for consonants among the phonemes constituting syllables so as to meet the timing to generate notes.;SOLUTION: The vocal data including the timing data to generate the notes by each of the syllables corresponding to lyrics is previously stored. When reproduction processing is started, the timing to generate the vowel 'a', the operation to utter the consonant 's' is started before the timing to generate the note in having the syllable 'sa' corresponding to the note 'doh' uttered and the timing to generate the vowel 'a' is made to meet the timing to generate the note 'doh'. As a result, the natural singing by the virtual singer is made possible without delaying in the accompaniment.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO