Flinger

Overview

Flinger is a program for synthesizing singing voice from a MIDI file input. It based on

the Festival Speech Synthesis System, developed at the University of Edinburgh
the C++ library contained in earlier versions of the TclMIDI package, developed by Mike Durian (another TclMIDI page is here) "This product includes software developed by Michael B. Durian."
various modules developed here at the Center for Spoken Language Understanding at OGI, including the OGIresLPC synthesizer and voices, and
a singing-voice synthesizer written by Mike Macon with support from Fluent Speech Technologies.

Flinger is similar in functionality to an earlier system called Lyricos, but in no way uses any source code or data contained in the Lyricos system.

Currently, Flinger is provided in pre-compiled form only, for Linux and Windows platforms only. We plan to offer a source code distribution in the future, similar to the way the other OGI TTS group software is provided.

Flinger Jukebox

Visit the Jukebox page to hear some samples of a growing library of music contributed by Flinger users around the world.

System Documentation

The Documentation page provides the most basic information needed to use the system. Note that this is not "pointy-clicky" software. In order to use it, you must be able to edit a text file and run a command-line program from the MS-DOS (or Linux) shell.

References

Some publications describing the concatenative approach to singing voice synthesis are as follows:

M. W. Macon, L. Jensen-Link, J. Oliverio, M. Clements, and E. B. George, "Concatenation-based MIDI-to-singing voice synthesis,'' 103rd Meeting of the Audio Engineering Society, New York, 1997.
M. W. Macon, L. Jensen-Link, J. Oliverio, M. Clements, and E. B. George, "A system for singing voice synthesis based on sinusoidal modeling,'' Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 435-438, 1997.
M. W. Macon, Speech Synthesis Based on Sinusoidal Modeling, PhD thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 1996.

A large number of references to other papers on singing voice synthesis can be found in the last reference above.

Support

We are looking for funding to continue Dr. Macon's work on Flinger. However, in the meantime, we have no resources to fix problems or add functionality. We have set up a forum at http://speech.bme.ogi.edu/forum to provide Flinger users with a forum to share experiences and trouble solving information. Please check back here regularly after you've become an accomplished Flinger user to pass on your knowledge.