Professional Publications

Investigation of Gesture Controlled Articulatory Vocal Synthesizer using a Bio-Mechanical Mapping Layer. Johnty Wang, Nicolas d'Alessandro, Sidney Fels and Robert Pritchard. In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME2012) (URL)

A Digital Mobile Choir: Joining Two Interfaces towards Composing and Performing Collaborative Mobile Music. Nicolas d'Alessandro, Aura Pon, Johnty Wang, David Eagle, Ehud Sharlin and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME2012) (URL)

Analysis-by-Performance : Gesturally-Controlled Voice Synthesis as an Input for Modelling of Vibrato in Singing. Nicolas d'Alessandro, Christophe Ooge, Thierry Dutoit and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2011.

Bringing Bio-Mechanical Modelling of the OPAL Complex as a Mapping Layer for Performative Speech Synthesis. Nicolas d'Alessandro, Johnty Wang, Bob Pritchard and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of the International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 2011

SQUEEZY: Extending a Multi-touch Screen with Force Sensing Objects for Controlling Articulatory Synthesis. Johnty Wang, Nicolas d'Alessandro and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2011 (URL)

Ubiquitous Voice Synthesis : Interactive Manipulation of Speech and Singing on Mobile Distributed Platforms. Nicolas d'Alessandro, Bob Pritchard, Johnty Wang and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI EA'11), 2011.

Performance: What does a body know?. Robert Pritchard, Sidney Fels, Nicolas d'Alessandro, Marguerite Witvoet, Johnty Wang, Cameron Hassall, Helene Day-Fraser, and Meryn Cadell. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI EA'11), 2011.

Developing vowel mappings for an interactive voice synthesis system controlled by hand motions. Karl I. Nordstrom, Sidney Fels, Cameron D. Hassall, and Bob Pritchard, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 2021 (2010), DOI:10.1121/1.3385277

ForTouch: a wearable digital ventriloquized actor. Sidney Fels, Robert Pritchard, and Allison Lenters. In Proc. of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2009), page 274-275, June 2009.

Bob Pritchard and Sidney Fels (2006) "Gesturally-Realized Audio. In Proc. of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME'06)., pages 272-276. (URL) (BibTeX)

A Parallel-Formant Speech Synthesizer in Max/MSP. Kexin Ma, Sidney Fels, and Robert Pritchard. In Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2006), page 322, Nov. 2006.

Reynald Hoskinson, Kees van den Doel and Sidney S. Fels (2003) Real-time Adaptive Control of Modal Synthesis. In 3rd International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME03). May, pages 99-103. (URL) (BibTeX)

Sidney S. Fels and Geoffrey E. Hinton (1998) Glove-TalkII: A neural network interface which maps gestures to parallel formant speech synthesizer controls.. . (URL) (BibTeX)

Sidney S. Fels and Goeffrey E. Hinton (1995) Glove-TalkII: An Adaptive Gesture-to-Formant Interface. In Proceedings of Computer Human Interaction 1995 (SIGCHI95). "Denver, May, pages 456-463. (BibTeX)

Sidney S. Fels and Goeffrey E. Hinton (1995) Glove-Talk II: Mapping Hand Gestures to Speech Using Neural Networks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS7). San Mateo. (D.S. Touretzky, Eds.) Morgan Kaufmann, pages 843-850. (BibTeX)

Sidney S. Fels and Goeffrey E. Hinton (1993) Glove-Talk: A neural network interface between a Data-Glove and a Speech Synthesizer.. . (URL) (BibTeX)

In-house papers/reports

Toward the Evaluation of Complex Hand Gestures for Expressive Voice Synthesis. Jonas Chatel-Goldman. 2010.
Master's Thesis JCG_Master_Thesis.pdf

An Adaptive Gesture-to-Speech Interface for DIVA. Allison Lenters. 2008.
402 Special Topics Final Paper 402Lenters.pdf

Interface Engineering of DIVAs. Yin Ying. 2008.
EECE496 Engineering Project Final Paper 496Ying.pdf\\