please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message singingcoach genre singing founded 2003 founders carlo franzblau & alix franzblau key people carlo franzblau founder & ceo alix franzblau shareholder and co founder parent electronic learning products elp website www.singingcoach.com singing coach is a downloadable learn to sing software program from electronic learning products inc. contents 1 development and early years 2 versions and releases 3 pitch recognition technology 4 development of tunein to reading 5 patents 6 see also 7 references development and early years edit brother and sister carlo and alix franzblau of tampa florida founded electronic learning products inc. in january 2000 . in 2003 their first product a learn to sing program was released by the name of carry a tune . the name was changed to singingcoach in 2004 . 1 versions and releases edit carry a tune s original software disk version was released in 2003 . in 2004 the trademark carry a tune was replaced with singingcoach in an effort to clarify the software s specific function as the software was gaining publicity and notoriety by various publications such as pc magazine . 2 singing coach was sold in software brick and mortar giants best buy comp usa and target . in 2012 franzblau opened his software up to exclusively e commerce shoppers by offering a downloadable version of singingcoach allowing customers to download the program directly from the website as opposed to picking up the software in a brick and mortar store . 3 pitch recognition technology edit singingcoach utilizes a pitch recognition technology that was developed by carlo franzblau and engineered by his team of programmers . singingcoach s technology uses a white tracking line on screen to record and display the pitch of one s voice in reference to the in tune bars of the song . this allows the user to understand whether or not they are singing in tune and allows the user to adjust their voice accordingly . a score is given upon completion of a song based on the percentage of time the singer stayed in tune . development of tunein to reading edit in 2006 franzblau realized that struggling readers who used software singingcoach also became more effective readers an unintended response derived from using the software . franzblau reached out to literacy researchers from the university of south florida in tampa florida who performed research studies over a period of five years that documented the benefits the singing approach had on all reader levels . in 2011 white papers were published describing the mechanism that made the singing approach so effective . researchers dubbed the instructional method melodic learning or the combination of music with visual imagery in the learning process . melodic learning is the simultaneous use of traditional multi sensory multi modality learning in which the auditory and kinesthetic modes embody significant rhythmic and tonal elements . 4 a graph of the reading gains of students using tunein to reading from elp patents edit in september 2007 franzblau s patent 7 271 329 covering a computer aided learning system employing a pitch tracking line was issued . other patents protecting surrounding inventions are currently pending . 5 see also edit university of south florida list of music software references edit company . singingcoach.com . retrieved 2012 07 17 . mangis carol 2005 06 07 . singing coach singing coach unlimited review & rating . pcmag.com . retrieved 2012 07 17 . singingcoach . singingcoach.com . retrieved 2012 07 17 . 1 . study published by usf on the gains of users of tunein to reading . accessed on june 19 2012 . united states patent 7271329 . patft.uspto.gov . retrieved 2012 07 17 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title singingcoach & oldid 729587810 categories music softwarehidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2012all articles needing additional referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 july 2016 at 06 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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