WO2012076938A1 - Advanced online singing competition with automated scoring - Google Patents

Advanced online singing competition with automated scoring Download PDF

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WO2012076938A1
WO2012076938A1 PCT/IB2010/055751 IB2010055751W WO2012076938A1 WO 2012076938 A1 WO2012076938 A1 WO 2012076938A1 IB 2010055751 W IB2010055751 W IB 2010055751W WO 2012076938 A1 WO2012076938 A1 WO 2012076938A1
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Narendran K Sankaran
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H1/00—Details of electrophonic musical instruments
    • G10H1/36—Accompaniment arrangements
    • G10H1/361—Recording/reproducing of accompaniment for use with an external source, e.g. karaoke systems
    • G10H1/365—Recording/reproducing of accompaniment for use with an external source, e.g. karaoke systems the accompaniment information being stored on a host computer and transmitted to a reproducing terminal by means of a network, e.g. public telephone lines
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H1/00—Details of electrophonic musical instruments
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H2210/00—Aspects or methods of musical processing having intrinsic musical character, i.e. involving musical theory or musical parameters or relying on musical knowledge, as applied in electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2210/031—Musical analysis, i.e. isolation, extraction or identification of musical elements or musical parameters from a raw acoustic signal or from an encoded audio signal
    • G10H2210/091—Musical analysis, i.e. isolation, extraction or identification of musical elements or musical parameters from a raw acoustic signal or from an encoded audio signal for performance evaluation, i.e. judging, grading or scoring the musical qualities or faithfulness of a performance, e.g. with respect to pitch, tempo or other timings of a reference performance
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10H—ELECTROPHONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS IN WHICH THE TONES ARE GENERATED BY ELECTROMECHANICAL MEANS OR ELECTRONIC GENERATORS, OR IN WHICH THE TONES ARE SYNTHESISED FROM A DATA STORE
    • G10H2240/00—Data organisation or data communication aspects, specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
    • G10H2240/121—Musical libraries, i.e. musical databases indexed by musical parameters, wavetables, indexing schemes using musical parameters, musical rule bases or knowledge bases, e.g. for automatic composing methods
    • G10H2240/131—Library retrieval, i.e. searching a database or selecting a specific musical piece, segment, pattern, rule or parameter set
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    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L17/00—Speaker identification or verification techniques

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  • the computers could handle
  • An objective of the invention is to overcome all of the drawbacks of human judgments as discussed above hence in the first aspect analogue live singing is captured in digital formats .
  • the online singing competition consists of voice recognition and voice recording, the computer analysis is carried out on the digital formats to obtain the necessary readings .these readings are then compared with that of with the original artist reading or that of the universal standard so that the result can be provide in the form of a numerical score. .
  • This is an online singing competition, without contemporary judges and/ or viewers voting instead with automated scoring system .
  • This present invention uses modern voice recording , recognition , digital analysis and instant scoring
  • Competitors are given a score based only on the musical quality of their singing and with total elimination of all forms of discrimination and other influences when a score is given.
  • Competitors are treated with equality and fairness when relatively large sums of prize funds are involved.
  • This present invention uses modern voice recordin , recognition , digital analysis and instant scoring
  • This present invention uses modern audio recording , audio recognition , digital recording computerized analysis and comparison of digital files . Using these inputs instant numerical score is given for each contestant on their performances
  • This method eliminates human involvement in scoring in order to prevent all forms of human bias and discrimination trough computerized analysis of musical quality of any song sung by a contestant by facilitating automated scoring . This will enable to run vast musical competition on a national or global scale with large number of contestants
  • This method gives exciting intellectual, spiritual and social entertainment and pleasure , helps the singers to discover their abilities and talents
  • Contestant confidence is boosted by facilitating virtual stage scoring without the pressure or intimidation from high profile judges and audience

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Abstract

A method of eliminating human involvement in scoring in order to prevent all forms of human bias and discrimination through computerized analysis of musical quality of any song sung by a contestant by facilitating automated scoring. Make feasible to run vast musical competitions on a national or global scale with large number of contestants This method enables singers to discover their musical abilities and enables them to develop their skills without having the fear of performing in front of high profile judge/s and audience. The voice recognized instant scoring system provides solid guidance to the contestant of their strengths and weakness in their musical skill and direction as to how to improve their musical skills. This gives an exciting intellectual, spiritual, social entertainment and pleasure particularly to the contestant who have limited exposures to social interaction Improve contestant's confidence using the virtual stage scoring without the pressure or intimidation from high profile judges and audience.

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ADVANCED ONLINE SINGING COMPETITION WITH AUTOMATED SCORING
FIELP OF THE INVENTION
A method of eliminating human involvement in scoring in order to prevent all forms of human bias and discrimination through computerized analysis of musical quality of any song sung by a contestant through automated scoring
QACX-G OUND
At present there are singing programs ,competitions and stage programs in which a contestant is either given a scoring by Human Judges and or viewers and or communities.
Needless to say
1.There are human biases,favourations and discriminations
2. Human judges could handle only limited number of competitors
because they cannot perform simultaneous judgment the way
The computers could handle
3 The biases of the human judgment will increase with the larger number of auditions and contestants you to fatigue
4. For all the individual contestants could be judged for their merits with equality , impartiality and without biases
It is possible to eliminate the human baises by capturing the musical quality of a particular song irrespective of the language and gender among the contestants
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An objective of the invention is to overcome all of the drawbacks of human judgments as discussed above hence in the first aspect analogue live singing is captured in digital formats .The online singing competition consists of voice recognition and voice recording, the computer analysis is carried out on the digital formats to obtain the necessary readings .these readings are then compared with that of with the original artist reading or that of the universal standard so that the result can be provide in the form of a numerical score. . This is an online singing competition, without contemporary judges and/ or viewers voting instead with automated scoring system . This present invention uses modern voice recording , recognition , digital analysis and instant scoring
This is to eliminate human involvement in scoring in order to prevent all forms of human bias and discrimination through computerized analysis of musical quality of any song sung by a contestant through automated scoring
QRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Drawings is irrelevant
PET At LEO DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Host online singing competitions on a virtual stage using computer and internet facilities and provide a fully automated scoring system.
The idea is to ensure;
Wider participation so that talents from remote areas and with only limited financial resources and/ or physical resources are provided with an opportunity to propel themselves to stardom
Facilitate fully automated scoring system without human involvement when a competitor is given a score.
Competitors are given a score based only on the musical quality of their singing and with total elimination of all forms of discrimination and other influences when a score is given.
Competitors are treated with equality and fairness when relatively large sums of prize funds are involved.
Conduct the competitions based on an automated computerized scoring and by storage and comparison of scores using online database facilities are provided .Every time current scoring will be added to the previous scoring produce accumulated scoring based on which the winners are decided
This is an online singing competition as such not restricted to one particular location and enables participation of several contestants/ participants exactly at the same point in time and judged by the automated voice recognized scoring system by all contestants being given a score individually, without contemporary judges and/ or viewers voting instead with automated scoring system . This present invention uses modern voice recordin , recognition , digital analysis and instant scoring This present invention uses modern audio recording , audio recognition , digital recording computerized analysis and comparison of digital files . Using these inputs instant numerical score is given for each contestant on their performances
1. Matching the contestants song with the already provided test voice of the contestant using acoustic finger print technology
2. Comparison of the contestant song with that of the original artist
3. Produce an instant score
This method eliminates human involvement in scoring in order to prevent all forms of human bias and discrimination trough computerized analysis of musical quality of any song sung by a contestant by facilitating automated scoring . This will enable to run vast musical competition on a national or global scale with large number of contestants
This method gives exciting intellectual, spiritual and social entertainment and pleasure , helps the singers to discover their abilities and talents
Contestant confidence is boosted by facilitating virtual stage scoring without the pressure or intimidation from high profile judges and audience
1000 s of participants can sing songs at the same time in any part of the world and computer will recognize all participants voice individually and provide them with instant accurate scoring

Claims

1. A method of eliminating human involvement in scoring in order to prevent all forms of human bias and discrimination through computerized analysis of musical quality of any song sung by a contestant through automated scoring
2. This is an online singing competition, without contemporary judges and/ or viewers voting instead with the automated scoring system
This present invention uses modern voice recording , voice recognition , digital analysis , acoustic finger print technology and instant scoring
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the computerized analysis will be carried on a song sung by any individual contestant which would provide the necessary readings to facilitate automatic and instant scoring. The computer analysis involves
1. Matching the contestants song with the already provided test voice of the contestant using acoustic finger print technology
2. Comparison of the contestant song with that of the original artist
3. Produce an instant score
4. The method according to claim 1, without contemporary judges and/ or viewers voting instead with automated scoring system. This present invention uses modern voice recording, recognition, digital analysis and instant scoring
5. The method according to claim 1, , wherein the computerized analysis will be carried on a song sung by any individual contestant which would provide the necessary readings to facilitate automatic and instant scoring
6. The method according to claim 1, method of eliminating human involvement in scoring in order to prevent all forms of human bias and discrirmnation through computerized analysis of musical quality of any song sung by a contestant through automated scoring
7. The method according to claim. This is an online singing competition as such not restricted to one particular location and enables participation of several contestants/ participants exactly at the same point in time and judged by the automated voice recognized scoring system by all contestants being given a score individually, without contemporary judges and/ or viewers voting instead with automated scoring system . This present invention uses modern voice recording , recognition , digital analysis and instant scoring
8 This is an online singing competition, without contemporary judges and/ or viewers voting instead with automated scoring system . This present invention uses modern voice recording , recognition , digital analysis and instant scoring The method according to claim 1 , wherein the computerized analysis will be carried on a song sung by any individual contestant which would provide the necessary readings to facilitate automatic and instant scoring
9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the computerized analysis will be carried on a song sung by any individual contestant which would provide the necessary readings to facilitate automatic and instant scoring .1000 s of participants can sing songs at the same time in any part of the world and computer will recognize all participant's voice individually and provide them with instant accurate scoring
10. This is an online singing competition, without contemporary judges and/ or viewers voting instead with automated scoring system . This present invention uses modem voice recording , recognition , digital analysis and instant scoring
The method according to claim 1, wherein the computerized analysis will be carried on a song sung by any individual contestant which would provide the necessary readings to facilitate automatic and instant scoring
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