Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Crowd-sourced technique for pitch track generation
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Application No.: US16665611Application Date: 2019-10-28
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Publication No.: US11250826B2Publication Date: 2022-02-15
- Inventor: Stefan Sullivan , John Shimmin , Dean Schaffer , Perry R. Cook
- Applicant: SMULE, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: SMULE, INC.
- Current Assignee: SMULE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Main IPC: G10H1/36
- IPC: G10H1/36

Abstract:
Digital signal processing and machine learning techniques can be employed in a vocal capture and performance social network to computationally generate vocal pitch tracks from a collection of vocal performances captured against a common temporal baseline such as a backing track or an original performance by a popularizing artist. In this way, crowd-sourced pitch tracks may be generated and distributed for use in subsequent karaoke-style vocal audio captures or other applications. Large numbers of performances of a song can be used to generate a pitch track. Computationally determined pitch trackings from individual audio signal encodings of the crowd-sourced vocal performance set are aggregated and processed as an observation sequence of a trained Hidden Markov Model (HMM) or other statistical model to produce an output pitch track.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200312290A1 CROWD-SOURCED TECHNIQUE FOR PITCH TRACK GENERATION Public/Granted day:2020-10-01
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