The Assessment and Development of Singing Ability - Initial Results With a New System

The system described is designed to allow the quantification and development of vocal pitch matching.It uses a BBC microcomputer with a specially designed interface which estimates voice fundamental frequency from an acoustic input.A session with this equipment would normally involve an assessment phase, a development phase followed by a second assessment phase thus enabling the effectiveness of training to be monitored at each session.The discussion presented is from a pilot study to optimise the system.