Realtime feedback of singing voice information for assisting students learning music therapy

Abstract

We propose to introduce a real-time visualization of voice information for assisting training of students learning music therapy. The proposed tool provides voice quality-related information as well as vocal tract shape information using real-time visualization. It also provides a voice production simulator to facilitate understanding of basics of acoustic phonetics, such as relations between vocal tract shape and formant frequencies, global spectral shape and glottal source waveform and so on. We also provide discussions on the role of these assisting tools for training students learning music therapy.