Method of rendering lyrics of a sound recording more easily understood by a listener

A computer-implemented method of adding spoken, not sung, lyrics into a pre-existing sound recording of one or more people singing a song to improve a listener's ability to understand the lyrics, which comprises:

• identifying the location within the pre-existing sound recording of one or more portions of sung lyrics, which are deemed by a listener as being imperceptible or difficult to understand;
• marking the beginning and end points of each portion of imperceptible sung lyrics within the pre-existing sound recording, wherein the end point of each portion of imperceptible sung lyrics will be an insert point for a clarifying audio file of spoken (not sung) lyrics;
• preparing or importing one or more clarifying audio files of spoken (not sung) lyrics to supplement each portion of imperceptible sung lyrics;
• optionally, modifying the existing sound recording by forming one or more modification fields either beginning at the insert point for select portions of lyrics deemed imperceptible or difficult to understand, or positioned adjacent to an existing gap or pause following a portion of imperceptible sung lyrics in the sound recording, and then modifying the pre-existing sound recording by at least one of:
• (i) overlying an audio file onto each existing gap or pause following a portion of imperceptible sung lyrics in the sound recording;
• (ii) inserting an audio file into each modification field inputted following a portion of imperceptible sung lyrics in the sound recording;
• (iii) overlying a portion of an audio file onto an existing gap or pause following a portion of imperceptible sung lyrics in the sound recording and inserting a remaining portion of the audio file into a modification field inputted following the existing gap or pause in the recording;
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• (iv) inserting a portion of an audio file into a modification field inputted following a portion of imperceptible sung lyrics in the sound recording but before an existing gap or pause in the sound recording, and overlying a remaining portion of the audio file onto the existing gap or pause following the modification field,
• to clarify the sung lyrics.

A modified sound recording of one or more people singing a song, which comprises at least one of:

• (i) spoken, not sung, lyrics overlaid onto existing gaps or pauses in the recording;
• (ii) spoken, not sung, lyrics inserted into inputted gaps or pauses in the recording;
• (iii) a portion of spoken, not sung, lyrics overlaid onto an existing gap or pause in the recording and a remaining portion of the spoken, not sung, lyrics inserted into an inputted gap or pause in the recording, the inputted gap or pause being positioned adjacent to the existing gap or pause;
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• (iv) a portion of spoken, not sung, lyrics inserted into an inputted gap or pause in the sound recording, which is positioned before an existing gap or pause in the recording, and a remaining portion of the spoken, not sung, lyrics overlaid onto the existing gap or pause positioned adjacent to the inputted gap or pause in the sound recording.