Improvements to Creativity in Singing Abilities Based on Perspective of Studies on Interaction between Speech Production and Auditory Perception

Abstract

Singing and speaking are important and natural ways in communications for humans to express nonlinguistic and linguistic information. It seems the majority of common people correctly perform and imitate all factors such as pitches and melodies as the same as those achieved by professional singers, while they can correctly vocalize all factors involved in speaking. There is no absolute answer as to why tone deafness is observed in singing. First, this paper introduces existing literature concerning speech production, auditory perception, and auditory-motor integration in tone deafness. Common people with/without tone deafness are regarded as not-yet creative people and creativity mining can support them to find and confirm their potential creativity. This paper reviews creativity in improving singing abilities based on studies of interaction between speech production and auditory perception.