Singing Mode XML

Singing-Mode XML

Festival songs are imported from and exported to Festival singing-mode XML.

Supported structures include:

• <SINGING BPM="..."> root data;
• <PITCH NOTE="..."> containers;
• <DURATION BEATS="...">phoneme</DURATION> events;
• <REST BEATS="..."> events.

Festival Virtual Singer writes an XML comment containing application metadata such as title, selected voice, and musical BPM. This allows the application to restore information not represented by the basic singing-mode DTD.

The parser reports missing roots, unclosed tags, missing closing tags, malformed attributes, and invalid song destinations.