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MIDI-to-Singing Online Karaoke for English M-Learning

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Computer Science and its Applications

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This research reports a proposal for learning English by using MIDI-to-Singing Karaoke in a mobile environment. Such an application is about an ongoing work of a “MIDI-to-Singing” system which is capable of generating synthesized singing based on a given MIDI melody. Considering that the mobile-phone has had a boom in the recent years, we have developed an online Karaoke that makes lifelong learning something natural and effective for English m-learning. In this demonstration, MIDI music, synthesized singing voice, lyrics and background photos are well aligned to compose a Karaoke video. Based on a HTML5 GUI design, we describe existing implementations for putting subtitles and captions alongside the HTML5 <video> tag inside Web pages and a proposal for standardizing such Karaoke application. We believe that using the MIDI-to-Singing online Karaoke as an educational tool will contribute to the success of English learning students.

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  1. Computer Science Department, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Hung-Che Shen

  2. Computer Science Department, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Chung-Nan Lee

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  1. , Electrical Engineering & ComputerScience, Mokwon University, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Sang-Soo Yeo

  2. , Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 30302-3994, USA

    Yi Pan

  3. , Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, Mokwon Gil-21, Doan-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon, 302-729, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Yang Sun Lee

  4. , Division of Business Administration, Sangmyung University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Hang Bae Chang

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Shen, HC., Lee, CN. (2012). MIDI-to-Singing Online Karaoke for English M-Learning. In: Yeo, SS., Pan, Y., Lee, Y., Chang, H. (eds) Computer Science and its Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 203. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5699-1_13

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