Concatenative singing voice resynthesis

The concept of capturing the sound of “something” for later replication is not new, and it is used in many synthesizers. But capturing sounds and use them as an audio effect, is less common. This paper presents an approach for the resynthesis of a singing voice, based on concatenative techniques, that uses pre-recorded audio material as an high level semantic audio effect, replacing an original audio recording with the sound of a different singer, while trying to keep the same musical/phonetic performance.