Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
Fall 10-7-2015
Abstract
The sonic space that can be spanned with the voice is vast and complex and, therefore, it is difficult to organize and explore. In order to devise tools that facilitate sound design by vocal sketching we attempt at organizing a database of short excerpts of vocal imitations. By clustering the sound samples on a space whose dimensionality has been reduced to the two principal components, it is experimentally checked how meaningful the resulting clusters are for humans. Eventually, a representative of each cluster, chosen to be close to its centroid, may serve as a landmark in the exploration of the sound space, and vocal imitations may serve as proxies for synthetic sounds.
Recommended Citation
Mauro D.A., Rocchesso D. “Analyzing and organizing the sonic space of vocal imitation.” Audio Mostly 2015, October 7-9, 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Comments
The version of record is available from the publisher at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2814895.2814921. Copyright © 2015 Association for Computing Machinery