This week, I conducted considerable research into features a singer’s vocal performance that can be used to discriminate between good and bad singing. I stumbled upon a few papers that discussed how we can do this, most importantly this one and this one.
In the first paper, the authors described 12 desirable characteristics used to define good singing, as described by experts in the field, and they adapted existing methods that measure those traits and aggregated them to generate a metric which they call Perceptual Evaluation of Singing Quality (PESnQ). However, to obtain this measure, a singer’s performance must be compared to an exemplary performance, which is out of the scope of our project. Most literature in this field of singer evaluation follows this methodology of using a template by which to compare a performance to. Continue reading “Carlos’s Status Report for 3/6/2021”
