SingersBabel is constantly adding content and working on new projects. Here you'll find information on both our short and long term plans. Below you'll find the release dates of new works into our library for the next month, as well as the large works currently in development. You'll also find information regarding the plans of Guides and Tutorials, and Sound Sets.

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Tutorial Releases

An International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Tutorial led by Daniel Molkentin and Barbara Paterson is currently in development. This tutorial serves as a basic introduction to IPA and will take you through all the sounds and corresponding IPA symbols for American English, French, and German.   

Sound Sets

SingersBabel currently offers Sound sets of sung American English, French, and German to it's users with free accounts and paid subscriptions. In June 2012, sounds sets for spoken French and German will be released. This tool will allow musicians to hear some of the differences between spoken and sung pronunciation. 

Also in June 2012, a new tool called "Sound Comparisons" will be released. In music we use the same notation in different styles. This doesn't mean that all styles of music are to be played the same because they're notated the same way. The same holds true when it comes to the IPA. It's a great tool for giving us concepts of sounds and a common language to work with, but there are some subtleties that can't be captured with the symbols. Sound Comparisons lists the equivalent sounds in American English, French and German next to each other so users can click and hear the subtle differences between them.    

Large Works in Development 

Recent Releases

Works

Tutorials