2024/01/15 by Robert G. Kimelman, Kimelman, Robert G.
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Music History and Culture #Music Technology and Sound Studies #Sound (cs.SD) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.07967
openalex publication_date 2024/01/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A novel freestyle rap software, MCMChaos 0.0.1, based on rap music transcriptions created in previous research is presented. The software has three different versions, each making use of different mathematical simulation methods: collapsed gibbs sampler and lorenz attractor simulation. As far as we know, these simulation methods have never been used in rap music generation before. The software implements Python Text-to-Speech processing (pyttxs) to convert text wrangled from the MCFlow corpus into English speech. In each version, values simulated from each respective mathematical model alter the rate of speech, volume, and (in the multiple voice case) the voice of the text-to-speech engine on a line-by-line basis. The user of the software is presented with a real-time graphical user interface (GUI) which instantaneously changes the initial values read into the mathematical simulation methods. Future research might attempt to allow for more user control and autonomy.