Singérer

Singérer is a neologism used in experimental music technology and computational linguistics to denote the process of converting a spoken utterance into a sung vocal line. The term refers to systems that segment spoken input into syllables, assign musical pitch contours, and render the result with a vocal synthesizer or voice samples. The aim is to produce a singing-like rendition that preserves the approximate rhythm and phrasing of the original speech while applying musical prosody.

Etymology and usage: Singérer appears in limited online discussions and experimental software documentation as a portmanteau of the English word “sing” and the French -er verb suffix, chosen to evoke both singing and a conventional verb form. It is not established in dictionaries and has no fixed orthography; variants may appear, but singérer is the most commonly cited form in niche communities.

Applications and implementations: In practice, singérer workflows involve pronunciation dictionaries, pitch mapping or extraction, lyric segmentation, and the use of vocal synthesis or sample-based voices. The approach is exploratory and varies between projects, with differences in how syllables are aligned to notes, how formants are preserved, and how the timbre is shaped to resemble a human singer. There is no standardized pipeline, reflecting ongoing experimentation rather than a settled technique.

See also: Autotune, vocoder, singing synthesis, speech-to-singing, voice conversion, prosody transfer, digital signal processing.