CantOvation Information

Cantovation's mission is to help people to sing better, and to have more fun in their singing, by developing innovative technology that gives people new ways to improve and enjoy their voices. In setting up CantOvation, we realised that with the rapidly increasing capability of home multimedia computers, the present time gives a unique opportunity to develop new technologies that will help people to sing better, to play music better, and to have more fun while they do that. Sing & See was originally developed as part of a research project in the University of Sydney that looked at how visual feedback technology helped improve singing training outcomes. The research subjects - private singing teachers in Sydney - were so positive about having the software in their studios that they kept asking whether they could buy it! That demand for a new tool to help in their teaching remains one of the underlying motivations driving CantOvation - we want to give singing teachers and singers computer tools that can really help them to improve the quality and efficiency of their singing training experience. CantOvation was set up in 2004 by Dr William Thorpe to commercialise the Sing & See software and the technology that grew out of that original software. It has since developed algorithms for 3rd-party products including StarPlay and Auralia, and is involved with several other ongoing R&D projects in areas related to voice technology.