This would be a computer visualization based on the sound of a singers voice that shows them the shape of their vocal tract.

So first you would make a dot that goes up the screen as the pitch of your voice higher and down the screen as the pitch of your voice goes lower, and build it from there.
-- JesusHChrist, Feb 22 2013

Some background info http://www.singwise...TractShaping&page=3
Actually having read that it would be bloody near impossible to do. [pocmloc, Feb 22 2013]

Voiceprints are widely known to exist. http://www.voiceprintsart.com/
[Vernon, Feb 22 2013]

So, an oscilloscope.
-- tatterdemalion, Feb 22 2013


Is there an oscilloscope software that gives you a realistic visualization of a singers vocal tract as they sing?
-- JesusHChrist, Feb 22 2013


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Singing the four first notes of Beethoven's 5th symphony, ascii version
-- piluso, Feb 22 2013


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-- pocmloc, Feb 22 2013


I don't see that this would be too hard to do. Basically you do a frequency analysis to ennumerate what harmonics there are and how strong each one is; then you use the output of this to adjust an on-screen image of your throat.
-- pocmloc, Feb 22 2013


There are many software applications for pitch detection and most remarkable pitch correction even for live performance. Some open source code uses the [pocmloc] suggested aproach for detection.

What I can't see, is how a singer could use a moving dot in the imprecise scale of a drawing of a vocal tract to improve their tuning.
-- piluso, Feb 22 2013


Well I was imagining that the well-baked spectrum analysis side of things would outoput a series of numbers (basically pairs of {frequency, amplitude}). The clever bit is that there is an algorythym that draws on the screen a lifelike 3d representation of the inside of a human vocal tract. When you feed into the algowrithem a series of number-pairs, it redraws the picture distorted in certain directions. The clever bit is that the distortions are calculated to approximate the real-world shape of the singer's bodily parts.
-- pocmloc, Feb 22 2013


// Is there an oscilloscope software that gives you a realistic visualization of a singers vocal tract as they sing? //

Yes. It's called 'Rock Band' for Xbox 360.
-- Alterother, Feb 22 2013



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