Information: (212) 260-4080, Extension 14. "TOXIC AUDIO," a production that blends a cappella singing, sound effects and comedy, at the American Theater of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, Clinton.
Since melodic singing requires audio-vocal integration, we hypothesized that singing melodies before training would also recruit the dorsal premotor cortex as a basic substrate for audio-vocal integration (see [18]).
As detailed below, we determined that auditory discrimination skills generally improved after training, but training-induced changes were not observed in either vocal accuracy or neural activity within the functional networks for singing or audio-vocal integration.
Briefly stated, the present experiment was designed to determine if better auditory discrimination skills would result in improved vocal accuracy in non-musicians, as suggested by both Amir et al. and Watts and colleagues [1], [2], and to assess whether better vocal accuracy would be accompanied by training-induced modifications to the functional network for singing or audio-vocal integration.
"I heard her singing [in an audio clip] on YouTube and it was gobsmacking.
But the concert's closing moments — involving a crew member in costume as the fat lady singing, and an audio clip of Porky Pig stammering "That's all, Folks" — came across like a fizzy drink with a bitter aftertaste.
We also demonstrated the capability of the recognition methods in automatic alignment of singing from polyphonic audio and text, where an average alignment error of 0.94 seconds was obtained.
The research presented in this paper automatically recognize a singer without separating instrumental and singing sounds using audio features like timbre coefficients, pitch class, mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients, and loudness of an audio signal from Indian video songs (IVS).
