Patent ID: 9721579
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G10H,G10L,Y10S

Claim:
1. A method of contributing to a coordinated vocal performance of a geographically distributed glee club, wherein the coordinated vocal performance includes contributions captured at respective geographically-distributed portable computing devices, the method comprising: using a first one of the geographically-distributed portable computing devices for vocal performance capture, the portable computing device having a display, a microphone interface and a communications interface; responsive to a user selection, retrieving via the communications interface (i) a backing track including a vocal performance of at least one other vocalist captured at a remote one of the geographically-distributed portable computing devices and (ii) a vocal score temporally synchronizable with the backing track and with lyrics, at the first portable computing device, audibly rendering the backing track and concurrently presenting corresponding portions of the lyrics on the display in temporal correspondence therewith; at the first portable computing device, capturing and pitch correcting a vocal performance of the user in accord with the vocal score, preparing an audio encoding of the user's vocal performance for mix with the vocal performance of the at least one other vocalist captured at the remote portable computing device.