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Abstract

Vocal musical performances may be captured and pitch corrected and supplied to telephony targets such as conventional voice terminal equipment (telephone handsets, answering machines, etc.), wireless telephony devices and information services wherein particular device or subscriber targets are identifiable using telephone numbers or alphanumeric IDs (e.g., mobile phones with or without text/multimedia messaging support, VoIP terminals, answering or voicemail services, ASP-based telephony services, etc.) and/or telco or premises-based telephony equipment, such as switches, with support for customizable ringback tones. To facilitate the foregoing, techniques have been developed for capture and audible rendering of vocal performances on handheld or other portable devices using signal processing techniques suitable given the somewhat limited capabilities of such devices and in ways that facilitate efficient encoding and communication of such captured performances via ubiquitous, though bandwidth limited, wireless networks and through communication channels typical of the wired and wireless telephony networks.

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