Industrial Technology Research Institute

Tien-Ho Chung

Sheng-Fu Liang

Wen-yu Su

A &ldquo;virtual string&rdquo; is generated for synthesizing sound produced by plucked-string instruments using recurrent neural networks. The disclosed recurrent neural network, called a Scattering Recurrent Network (SRN), is based on the physics of waves traveling in the string. Vibration measured from a plucked string is used as the training data for the SRN. The trained SRN is a virtual model capable of generating tones similar to the tones generated by the physical string. As with a real string, the &ldquo;virtual string&rdquo; corresponding to the SRN responds differently to different types of string &ldquo;plucking&rdquo; motions.

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