This week in my App Smart column, I talked about a few karaoke apps that can replicate many of the features of a full-fledged karaoke machine. I also mentioned one app that can help you train your singing voice.
There are, of course, numerous apps that try to help you improve your singing or let you groove to your own rendition of a popular hit.
One interesting app that can help teach you the subtleties of singing in harmonies is the $3 iOS app Sing Harmonies. This app is all about prerecorded adult voices singing harmony parts to well-known songs. The idea is that you can turn the backing music off at will, and also turn off each of the parts separately. In this way, you can learn the harmony parts by copying them individually, and perhaps teach yourself to listen to other singer’s voices when you’re performing. It’s fun and pleasingly simple to use, but $3 only gets you a very short list of songs.
For an app that’s got an element of karaoke, check out the free iOS app StarMaker: Karaoke + Auto Tune. Like other apps of this sort, you have to spend in-app “credits” to access tracks. To add credits, you have to sing songs, perform actions like uploading and sharing your experiences or watch video advertisements. You can also pay, with unlimited access for $3 a week. When you are singing each track from this app’s impressively up-to-date archive, it scores how well you’ve performed by analyzing your voice. Thus, the Starmaker may help you be a better singer — or at least a better karaoke performer. That is, if you don’t turn on the auto-tune system, which automatically fixes the notes you sing!
For a bit of musical fun, singers may enjoy the free Android app Pitch Lab Pro–Chromatic Tuner. In part, this is an app aimed at helping you tune an instrument like a guitar. But its core function of listening to an input sound and reporting what musical note that sound matches may also be good for training your singing. To do this, it has an array of different graphical visualizations that show the note you are singing — including how accurately you’re hitting the right frequency.
Remember that for many singing apps, the microphone built into your smartphone or tablet might not be the best option; plugging in a dedicated microphone or your hands-free set could yield better results.
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Runkeeper is one of the better apps for helping runners, cyclists and walkers keep track of their exercise regimes. It’s just been upgraded to version 3.0 for Android devices, complete with a more highly polished new look and extra features like in-activity splits.
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