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		<title>Ethical and legal considerations of sampling</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/04/04/ethical-and-legal-considerations-of-sampling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem a whole new realm of ethical and legal considerations will arise out of the development of synthetic voices based, at least in part, on sampling of natural speech. One easy way to avoid these concerns, I suppose, would be to hire speakers, or use insider voices for the immediate needs of production, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automatic voice feature extraction</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/04/04/automatic-voice-feature-extraction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elliott D. Ross and colleagues have long studied the impact of particular right hemisphere neuropathologies on affective speech prosody, syndromes collectively termed the aprosodias. (See the Song, Speech, and Brain bibliography for some details). If we develop the tools for automatic extraction of voice features (ones that would be necessary to produce animated synthetic voices), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices for entertainment and beyond</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/04/02/voices-for-entertainment-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about the challenges of creating realistic voices for video games, feature films, and beyond. What&#8217;s beyond: I see us developing computer systems that learn language in the way that a human does, through the combination of inborn mechanisms and lived experience. Idiolects reflect the individual, from the statistical analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BCOME 2007 (Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship) CfP</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/03/28/bcome-2007-brevard-conference-on-music-entrepreneurship-cfp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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Call For Papers
Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship
When: July 27-29, 2007
Where: Brevard, North Carolina
Panel: &#8220;Disciplining Entrepreneurship in Music Higher Education&#8221;
America&#8217;s music schools are adopting entrepreneurship education at a steady rate. However, the lack of an accepted definition or conception of &#8220;entrepreneurship&#8221; has spawned a diverse range of curricular structuring. Concurrently, a lack of scholarship concerning these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leitmotivation</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/03/25/leitmotivation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an idea recently, in the vein of sound design, or score writing for movies, games, what have you. I&#8217;m wondering if anyone is working on this. The idea is simple: extract certain salient patterns of melody and rhythm from the speech of an individual, transforming those patterns directly into musical motives, to serve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The reliability of pause as a cue in speech</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/03/23/the-reliability-of-pause-as-a-cue-in-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A question has recently come up regarding the reliability of pause as a cue to the segmentation of speech into intonational, or semantic meaning groups [1]. A few years ago, I had prepared a paper in conjunction with a colleague, Pentti Haddington, which addressed the question of the unreliability of pause in this context (click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superhuman Speech system (SHS)</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/02/03/superhuman-speech-system-shs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found an article on research being done at IBM, that seeks to address many of the issues I raised in an earlier post. Any comments?
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		<title>Realistic Voice synthesis and natural speech comprehension</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/01/17/realistic-voice-synthesis-and-natural-speech-comprehension/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2007/01/17/realistic-voice-synthesis-and-natural-speech-comprehension/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a question out to my readers: Is anyone developing a realistic system of voice synthesis, that takes into account the prosody, especially the melody and rhythm, of natural speech? On the other end, what work is being done to facilitate machine comprehension of natural speech, in particular the meaning of speech prosody?
From what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music &amp; Language: Parallels &amp; Divergences</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2006/11/30/music-language-parallels-divergences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2006/11/30/music-language-parallels-divergences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attached are lecture notes, and the PowerPoint slide show from the talk &#8220;Music &#038; Language: Parallels &#038; Divergences&#8221; which was presented to the Cognitive and Perceptual Sciences (CaPS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on November 30, 2001.
Music &#038; Language: Parallels &#038; Divergences (.pdf)
Music &#038; Language: Parallels &#038; Divergences (PowerPoint)
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		<title>Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology added</title>
		<link>http://www.musiclanguage.net/2006/06/21/introduction-to-evolutionary-musicology-added/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan G. Secora Pearl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presentation &#8220;An Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology&#8221; originally given at the Conference of the International Musicological Society in Leuven, Belgium, August 2002, has been added under Conferences/Presentations.
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