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US 2021/0280166 A1Published application
Systems and methods for transposing spoken or textual input to music
AssigneeYao the Bard, LLC
InventorsLeonardus H.T. Van Der Ploeg, Halley Young
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Abstract
Described herein are real-time musical translation devices (RETM) and methods of use thereof. Exemplary uses of RETMs include optimizing the understanding and/or recall of an input message for a user and improving a cognitive process in a user.
Claims42
A method of transforming textual input to a musical score comprising:
- receiving text input;
- transliterating the text input into a standardized phonemic representation of the text input;
- determining for the phonemic text input, a plurality of spoken pause lengths and a plurality of spoken phoneme lengths;
- mapping the plurality of spoken pause lengths to a respective plurality of sung pause lengths;
- mapping the plurality of spoken phoneme lengths to a respective plurality of sung phoneme lengths;
- generating, from the plurality of sung pause lengths and the plurality of sung phoneme lengths, a timed text input;
- generating a plurality of matching metrics for each of a respective plurality of portions of the timed text input against a plurality of melody segments;
- and
- generating a patterned musical message from the timed text input and the plurality of melody segments based at least in part on the plurality of matching metrics.
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A real time musical translation device (RETM) comprising:
- an input interface;
- a processor;
- an audio output component;
- and
- a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and comprising instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- receive text input from the input interface;
- determine, for the text input, a plurality of spoken pause lengths and a plurality of spoken phoneme lengths;
- map the plurality of spoken pause lengths to a respective plurality of sung pause lengths;
- map the plurality of spoken phoneme lengths to a respective plurality of sung phoneme lengths;
- generate, from the plurality of sung pause lengths and the plurality of sung phoneme lengths, a timed text input;
- generate a plurality of matching metrics for each of a respective plurality of portions of the timed text input against a plurality of melody segments;
- generate a patterned musical message from the timed text input and the plurality of melody segments based at least in part on the plurality of matching metrics;
- and
- output the patterned musical message using the audio output component.
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A method of transforming textual input to a musical score for improving a cognitive process in a user comprising:
- providing the user with access to a real-time musical translation device (RETM), wherein the RETM comprises:
- an input interface;
- a processor;
- an audio output component;
- and
- a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and comprising instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- receive text input from the input interface;
- determine, for the text input, a plurality of spoken pause lengths and a plurality of spoken phoneme lengths;
- map the plurality of spoken pause lengths to a respective plurality of sung pause lengths;
- map the plurality of spoken phoneme lengths to a respective plurality of sung phoneme lengths;
- generate, from the plurality of sung pause lengths and the plurality of sung phoneme lengths, a timed text input;
- generate a plurality of matching metrics for each of a respective plurality of portions of the timed text input against a plurality of melody segments;
- generate a patterned musical message from the timed text input and the plurality of melody segments based at least in part on the plurality of matching metrics;
- and
- output the patterned musical message to the user using the audio output component.
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A method of determining a melody track in a music file comprising:
- accessing a plurality of tracks in the music file;
- scoring each of the plurality of tracks according a plurality of melody heuristics;
- and
- identifying a melody track from among the plurality of tracks based at least in part on the plurality of melody heuristics for the melody track.
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