Singstar
 

Hola,

I was in a small party where people sang on PS2 (Singstar game). Then suddenly it occured to me that, actually it would be completely feasible game to play with N900: You can plug it on TV and you could sing holding the device on hand like microphone.

Of course it has only one microphone and there is a LOT to do before anything like Singstar is possible, but still. With tunewiki, your own songs, some volunteer work/songscripting and simple sound detection it is perhaps doable. What do you think?

Anyway the idea is now on the open.

Re: Singstar
 

nice idea :D
maybe you can connect an external microphone via bluetooth too. ^^
(the intern mic is (imho) not the best around *G*)

Re: Singstar
 

It's a lot harder than you think, especially if you want any sort of accuracy when scoring people. Believe me... "simple sound detection" isn't going to be anywhere near close enough to be good.

Re: Singstar
 

Sure the algorithms are a bit of a problem (I'm sure there is public research on this but also sure that "Singstar" has heavily tweaked algos), but the device has a powerful DSP so it's "just" a software problem (the mic that ships with singstar cannot be much better than the phone mic...)

OTOH not that we're in this line of thinking I'm suddenly thinking http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/

Re: Singstar
 

Ultrastar port for maemo perhaps? http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultrastar/files/