JP2003044064A - Karaoke communication training system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an environment for enabling a person, who studies singing, to receive the singing instruction of an expert by accessing the Internet from a personal computer at home, for example, while effectively utilizing an information technology related to the personal computer or the Internet. SOLUTION: This system is basically composed of a computer system (school server 1) for communicating with a student computer which performs access via the Internet, and provided with a contents database storing singing instruction digital contents for a large number of pieces of music. The singing instruction digital contents contain the singing instruction notice information for each piece of music produced and edited to be transmitted from a teacher to a student, karaoke data, and a voice capture program with which a correction target file is prepared by recording the singing voice of the student in the relevant student computer during the reproduction of such karaoke data on the student computer and that correction target file is transmitted to this karaoke communication training system while being added with student identification information.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a karaoke communication lesson for providing an environment where karaoke enthusiasts receive professional singing instruction using a personal computer at home by utilizing information communication technology bases such as broadband Internet. It is about the system.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Many people who are studying songs repeatedly practice their favorite songs through a karaoke box. Some karaoke boxes are equipped with a recording device. Play the desired song on the karaoke machine and sing it yourself.
The singing voice with the accompaniment at that time can be recorded and recorded on a medium such as a compact disc or a mini disc and taken back. You can always play this back on your home player. Listen to this and have it evaluated by yourself, your family and friends, and practice to sing better.

Many karaoke devices generally have a scoring device attached thereto. The scoring device attached to the karaoke compares the main melody data incidental to the karaoke accompaniment music that has been electronically scored with the sampling data of the singing voice signal that is input to the microphone to determine the accuracy of the pitch and the accuracy of the generation timing. It is general to roughly measure and output as a total point. This is a great topic at karaoke parties, but it is not useful for people who practice singing seriously.

This is, for example, disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-6.
It is described in detail in Japanese Patent Publication No. 7084. In the invention of this publication, a host device for online karaoke is equipped with a scoring device for performing advanced scoring analysis processing, and a singing voice sung by a customer is recorded using a online karaoke terminal and transferred to the host device. The scoring device on the host side analyzes and evaluates the customer's singing voice recording data over a sufficient period of time, and reports the result to a personal computer of the customer's home by e-mail.

According to this publicly known technique, since the scoring functions are collectively provided in the communication karaoke host device, it is possible to employ a more sophisticated song analysis algorithm than the scoring function provided separately to each karaoke terminal. By adopting a method that takes time to analyze later, it will be possible to perform more useful singing analysis than the method of scoring in real time as the customer sings.

However, even if the result of an extremely human act of singing a song is mechanically analyzed by a computer, it is impossible to accurately evaluate the persuasive power, appealing power, and artistry of the song. Would be good. For those who are serious about studying songs, it would be ideal to receive singing instruction from a specialist private lesson.

By the way, recently, personal computers connected to the Internet have been widely utilized in general households, and various information services and electronic commerce businesses have been developed on the Internet for such personal computer users. With the widespread use of broadband Internet connections, practical and economical information systems with rich contents for handling multimedia information have become familiar.

[0008]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention makes it possible for a person studying a song to access the Internet from a personal computer at home and receive expert singing instruction by utilizing information technology related to a personal computer and the Internet. The purpose is to create a unique environment.

That is, the karaoke communication training system according to the present invention is basically constituted by a computer system which communicates with a student computer which has accessed through an information communication network such as the Internet, and video, audio and characters. It is equipped with a content database that stores a large number of singing instruction digital contents created and edited for singing instruction of individual songs by multimedia information including.

The above-mentioned singing instruction digital contents include:
The singing instruction announcement information of each song created and edited for transmission from the teacher to the student, karaoke data for synchronously generating the karaoke accompaniment music and lyrics image of each song, and this karaoke data on the student computer For recording the singing voice of the student who is voice-input to the student computer during the reproduction period to create a correction target file, and attaching the student identification information to the correction target file and transmitting it to the karaoke correspondence learning system Includes audio capture program.

The karaoke communication training system further comprises means for delivering the singing instruction digital contents of the designated music to the student computer that has accessed, and the correction target file delivered from the student computer to the student computer. And a means for storing the identification information together with the identification information.

In the karaoke communication training system having the above basic structure, it is possible to provide means for communicating with the teacher computer via the information communication network and delivering the stored file to be corrected to the teacher computer. Further, it is possible to provide means for receiving, from the teacher computer, song instruction comment information about the correction target file transmitted to the teacher computer, and storing the song guidance comment information together with the student identification information attached to the correction target file. Further, it is possible to provide a means for delivering the stored singing instruction comment information to a predetermined student computer based on the student identification information attached thereto.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION === Training School Server 1 === FIG. 1 shows an outline of a system configuration centering on a karaoke communication training system according to an embodiment of the present invention. This karaoke communication training system comprises a computer system connected to the Internet, and this system will be referred to as a training school server 1 in the following description.

A student who wants to receive singing instruction prepares a computer equivalent to a general personal computer connected to the Internet. This computer is called a student computer 2. In addition, teachers who teach singing will also prepare a computer equivalent to a personal computer connected to the Internet. This computer is called a teacher computer 3.

=== Content Database === The school server 1 has a large-capacity external storage device such as a hard disk device or a DVD recording / reproducing device, and manages a content database constructed by using this as a storage resource. This content database is a collection of a large number of song instruction digital contents created and edited for the song instruction of individual songs by multimedia information including video, audio and characters.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, in the singing instruction digital contents, the singing instruction announcement information of each song produced and edited for transmission from the teacher to the students, and the karaoke accompaniment music and lyrics of each song. Karaoke data for synchronously generating an image and the student computer 2 during the period when the karaoke data is reproduced by the student computer 2.
A voice capture program for recording the singing voice of the student input by voice to create a file to be corrected and adding the student identification information to the file to be corrected and transmitting it to the school server 1.

The singing instruction announcement information in the singing instruction digital contents is specifically, for example, when a teacher sings an appropriate phrase of a musical composition while accompaniment with a piano or sings the phrase. It is a series of programs composed of multimedia information, which is mainly composed of live-action video with audio that tells the viewer what to note and the like, combined with a character string of lyrics and an image of a musical score and edited. This is a program in which teachers send singing instruction information to students in a one-way way.In this program, after explaining how to take rhythm with appropriate phrases, etc., the sound and score of the metronome were presented. It can also include components that allow students to sing.

=== Access by Student Computer 2 === The student who wants to receive singing instruction is the student computer 2
To access the school server 1 and select a teaching material. That is, the school server 1 delivers the screen information of the learning material selection page to the student computer 2 that has accessed, as desired. This teaching material selection page is a hypertext document configured to have a desired song be selected from the song instruction digital contents registered in the content database, and the desired song is searched by a song name and an artist name.・ In addition to being able to search by author search, a large number of teachers who teach singing are presented in a list, and the desired teacher is selected, and then the songs selected by the selected teacher are presented in a list. You can also choose one song.

When the desired music is specified by the student computer 2, the driving school server 1 retrieves the singing instruction digital content of the music from the content database and delivers it to the student computer 2.

In the student computer 2 which has received the singing instruction digital content, the above-mentioned singing instruction announcement program is first reproduced and output as video and audio. By watching this, students first receive one-way singing instruction by the teacher. Based on this, the students self-learn and then proceed to the process of recording their singing voice and creating a file to be corrected. In this process, the karaoke data and the voice capture program in the singing instruction digital content are run on the student computer 2. That is, the karaoke accompaniment music is output from the student computer 2, and the lyrics are displayed on the display in synchronization with this, and the student sings into the microphone in accordance with this. The singing voice at this time is taken into the student computer 2 and digitally converted to create a correction target file. The file to be corrected is the student computer 2 together with the student identification information.
Is delivered to the driving school server 1 and stored.

=== Notification to Teacher and Correction Guidance === As shown in FIG. 1, the driving school server 1 creates a student management book and a teacher management book on the hard disk device and records necessary information. Manage. That is, driving school server 1
Saves the file to be corrected and the student identification information received from a certain student computer 2, determines which teacher is the music for which this file to be corrected is instructed, and sends the e-mail address of the teacher in charge from the teacher management book. Check and send a message to the email address informing you that the file to be corrected has arrived.

The teacher who receives the notification by the electronic mail accesses the school server 1 by the teacher computer 3 and downloads the file to be corrected by himself / herself. That is, the school server 1 communicates with the teacher computer 3 and delivers the stored correction target file to the teacher computer 3 based on the information in the student management book and the teacher management book.

The teacher reproduces the correction target file loaded in the teacher computer 3 to hear the singing voice of the student, evaluates the singing voice of the student, and creates singing instruction comment information in an appropriate file format. As the singing instruction comment information, a text-based document file in which the singing instruction comments are expressed by sentences is used, or an audio file in which the audio information that the teacher speaks to the students is digitally recorded is used. An appropriate method can be adopted, such as taking the format of a video / audio file that includes a video that speaks to students and a video such as a musical score. According to the system, the driving school server 1 is provided with a capture program and the like required for the teacher computer 3.

The song instruction comment information file created by the teacher computer 3 is delivered to the driving school server 1,
The school server 1 stores the received song instruction comment information file in association with the record information of the teacher management book and the student management book.

=== Notification to Students === When the driving school server 1 receives a song instruction comment information file from the teacher computer 3, it will save this file based on the recorded information in the teacher management book or student management book. Identify the student who originated, get the student's email address, and say, "Your song has been corrected by the teacher."
Send a message to the student's e-mail address informing them of the contents such as.

The student who receives the notification by the electronic mail accesses the school server 1 by the student computer 2 and downloads the singing instruction comment information file addressed to himself / herself. That is, the school server 1 communicates with the student computer 2 and delivers the stored song instruction comment information file to the student computer 2 based on the recorded information in the teacher management book and the student management book.

The student reproduces the song instruction comment information file loaded in the student computer 2, reads the comment text of the teacher, listens to the comment voice of the teacher, or listens to the video and sound of the teacher or the score. Then, I will recommend studying songs.

[0028]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a person studying a song can access the Internet from a personal computer at home, for example, by utilizing information technology related to a personal computer or the Internet. It is possible to create an environment where you can receive singing instruction from your home.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of an entire network system including a karaoke communication training system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing a configuration of song instruction digital content according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 School server (Karaoke communication training system) 2 student computer 3 teacher computer

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A karaoke communication training system comprising a computer system that communicates with a student computer that has accessed through an information communication network, for singing a song of an individual music piece by multimedia information including video, audio and characters. A content database that accumulates a large number of song-instruction digital contents produced and edited by the song-instruction digital contents, the song-instruction notification information of each song produced and edited for transmission from the teacher to the student, and Karaoke data for synchronously generating the karaoke accompaniment music and the lyrics image of the music, and the singing voice of the student who is voice-input to the student computer during the period when the karaoke data is reproduced on the student computer are recorded and corrected. Create a file and add student identification to the file to be corrected. A voice capture program for transmitting information to the present karaoke communication learning system is included, and means for delivering the singing instruction digital contents of the designated music to the accessing student computer, and the student. A karaoke communication training system comprising: means for storing the correction target file delivered from a computer together with the student identification information. 2. The karaoke communication training system according to claim 1, further comprising means for communicating with the teacher computer via an information communication network and delivering the stored file to be corrected to the teacher computer. And 3. The karaoke communication training system according to claim 2, wherein singing instruction comment information regarding the correction target file transmitted to the teacher computer is received from the teacher computer and is attached to the correction target file. It is characterized in that a means for storing together with the student identification information is provided. 4. The karaoke communication training system according to claim 3, further comprising means for delivering the stored singing instruction comment information to a predetermined student computer based on the student identification information attached thereto. It is characterized by having.