<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method for evaluating vocal music performance which evaluate individual features of a singer in the middle of a song or at the end of it and enables the interpolation or the removal of the evaluated features. <P>SOLUTION: The device and method for evaluating vocal music performance enable the feedback of visual sense and voice related to one part of a measurement result of the similarity between a voice signal of the singer and the reference voice signal, the feedback of visual sense and voice related to the final result of evaluation for the similarity, the production of a summary of the evaluation for the respective similarities of the features and the supplement, removal or correction of the assembly of the rence voice is made possible. The evaluation for the similarity is adapted to available computer resources and a scalar property is imparted to the device for features. Thereby, the modularization of the device for evaluating vocal music performance is made possible and the adjustment of quality level of the evaluation for the similarity which is performed on the basis of the processing of the voice of the singer and the reference vocal music performance. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO 
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING VOCAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE