Patent ID: 9595256
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G10H,G10L

Claim:
1. A singing synthesis system comprising at least one processor operable to function as: a data storage section configured to store a music audio signal and lyrics data temporally aligned with the music audio signal; a display section provided with a display screen and operable to display at least a part of lyrics on the display screen, based on the lyrics data; a music audio signal playback section operable to play back the music audio signal from a signal portion or its immediately preceding signal portion of the music audio signal corresponding to a character in the lyrics when the character in the lyrics displayed on the display screen is selected due to a selection operation; a recording section operable to record a plurality of vocals sung by a singer a plurality of times, listening to played-back music while the music audio signal playback section plays back the music audio signal; an estimation and analysis data storing section operable to: estimate time periods of a plurality of phonemes in a phoneme unit for the respective vocals sung by the singer the plurality of times that have been recorded by the recording section and store the estimated time periods; and obtain pitch data, power data, and timbre data by analyzing a pitch, a power, and a timbre of each vocal and store the obtained pitch data, the obtained power data, and the obtained timbre data; an estimation and analysis results display section operable to display on the display screen reflected pitch data, reflected power data, and reflected timbre data, whereby estimation and analysis results have been reflected in the pitch data, the power data, and the timbre data, together with the time periods of the plurality of phonemes recorded in the estimation and analysis data storing section; a data selecting section configured to allow a user to select the pitch data, the power data, and the timbre data for the respective time periods of the phonemes from the estimation and analysis results for the respective vocals sung by the singer the plurality of times as displayed on the display screen; an integrated singing data generating section operable to generate integrated singing data not obtained from a single take by integrating the pitch data, the power data, and the timbre data, which have been selected by using the data selecting section, for the respective time periods of the plurality of phonemes recorded; and a singing playback section operable to play back the integrated singing data.