SONATA

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SONATA is a one-man project with a number of collaborating groups in Norway and abroad. The project manager and postdoc in the project is Dr. Snorre Farner while the responsible is Prof. Peter Svensson, both in the Acoustics group at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Together with Ass. Prof. Jan Tro in the Acoustics group and the two NTNU centres the Acoustic Research Centre and the Centre of Excellence for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems there is a number of collaborating groups:

  • The Signal Processing group at the Department of Telecommunication at NTNU (and the project FONEMA), which works on speech analysis and synthesis, in particular the unit selection synthesis method. Contact: Prof. Torbjørn Svendsen
  • Department of Speech, Music, and Hearing at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, which holds a good quality of research in the fields of naturalness and synthesis of the singing and the speaking voice. Contact: Prof. Sten Ternström
  • Music Informatics Laboratory at Department of Informatics at the University of Copenhagen (DIKU), where timbre modelling in music is an important objective. Contact: Prof. Kristoffer Jensen
  • Modelling, Synthesis, and Control of Sound and Music Signals group (S2M) at the Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics at CNRS in Marseille, France. The candiate has worked two years in this group, and the last year in collaboration with the Language and Music group (see below) to study the electric reactions in the brain when unnaturalness is added to music and speech [Ystad03] Contacts: Drs. Richard Kronland-Martinet and Sølvi Ystad
  • The Language, Music, and Motricity group at The Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at CNRS in Marseilles, which has equipment and experience for measurements of brain activity by the Event-Related Potential (ERP) method and by magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI). Contact: Dr. Mireille Besson

Home: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~farner, E-mail: farner(a)pvv.ntnu.no
Last modified: Mon Apr 18 13:26:04 CEST 2005