Re: sheet music

[Johan Schoone]

In article <address@hidden>, Tom Cato Amundsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:06:24AM +0200, Johan Schoone wrote:
>> In article <address@hidden>,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >Is there a program which will allow me to sing into a microphone attached 
>> >to my
>> >computer and have the vocal music written as 
>> >sheet music.
>> 
>> We have voice recognition software now, but transforming the rhytm and
>> intonation into sheet music is still beyond the horizon...
>
>Do you have any links to or names of software that can find the pitch
>from a microphone? I only need to be able to id one single pitch.
>The software has to be GPL'ed (or at least DFSG-free)

This means one could extract the lyrics using voice recognition
software and use the resources mentioned by Han-Wen for finding the
matching notes. Still a lot of work to do...

>> The next step would be to process a live recording of a band.
>> I am just curious how such a program would respond to a Motörhead
>> record. ;-)
>segfault

Not neccessarily... The only purpose for such a program would be for
analysing improvised music.

>At least I personally segfault when I have to hear more than a few
>bars of Motörhead.

More likely, you get bored after a few tracks.
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Johan Schoone <address@hidden>                                \\|//
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