@inproceedings{89e639d3323647a084db27fb8f5b2977,
title = "SynthAssist: An audio synthesizer programmed with vocal imitation",
abstract = "While programming an audio synthesizer can be difficult, if a user has a general idea of the sound they are trying to program, they may be able to imitate it with their voice. In this technical demonstration, we demonstrate SynthAssist, a system that allows the user to program an audio synthesizer using vocal imitation and interactive feedback. This system treats synthesizer programming as an audio information retrieval task. To account for the limitations of the human voice, it compares vocal imitations to synthesizer sounds by using both absolute and relative temporal shapes of relevant audio features, and it refines the query and feature weights using relevance feedback.",
keywords = "Audio, Music, Synthesis, Vocal imitation",
author = "Mark Cartwright and Bryan Pardo",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1145/2647868.2654880",
language = "English (US)",
series = "MM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Multimedia",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "741--742",
booktitle = "MM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Multimedia",
note = "2014 ACM Conference on Multimedia, MM 2014 ; Conference date: 03-11-2014 Through 07-11-2014",
}