Definition of Concatenative synthesis
Concatenative synthesis is a technique for synthesising sounds by concatenating short samples of recorded sound (called units). The duration of the units is not strictly defined and may vary according to the implementation, roughly in the range of 10 milliseconds up to 1 second. It is used in speech synthesis and music sound synthesis to generate user-specified sequences of sound from a database (often called a corpus) built from recordings of other sequences.
In contrast to granular synthesis, concatenative synthesis is driven by an analysis of the source sound, in order to identify the units that
best match the specified criterion.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Concatenative synthesis?
Concatenative synthesis is a technique for synthesising sounds by concatenating short samples of recorded sound (called units).