[rooster117]

The mic works on the standard 440 tuning and converts the input to its midi representation. Trying to understand your question but the mic doesn't really care about the do, re, me but rather that it's the right frequency for the displayed note on the staff. The mic feature is something I'm actively working on improving as it's decent now but not perfect. If you have an instrument with a way to connect to the phone through midi it's the best experience but if you have acoustic then the mic or just the on screen keyboard is the good.

[ajepst]

Sight reading practice for voice is super useful, but not many of us have perfect pitch to pull a starting note out of the air! An option to get a starting note audible cue for vocal sight reading would be a great add-on (and hopefully not too difficult!)

[Ericson2314]

I have perfect pitch and it's overrated.

Pro tip: You can pick any note you want as the starting pitch, and do realtive pitch from there. It doesn't matter. Pitch is an affine space, there's no 0 pitch!

[eumenides1]

Classic Joke: How do you know a person has perfect pitch?

I learned that as you get older, if you don't use it, you lose it.

[ajepst]

Oh of course, if you just want to practice sight reading on your own, correct pitch is irrelevant, but if you want to use an app like this and have it follow along and check if you’re accurate with your sight reading, you have to agree with the app on pitch!

[Ericson2314]

Can you change the tempo or something to slide around on the first note until you find the pitch it wants?

[tunesmith]

In music school, I was in the position of having excellent relative pitch and zero perfect pitch. In the ear training courses, I actually scored better than the peers with perfect pitch, as it seemed they had difficulty with a lot of the exercises, particularly the by-ear transcription of the four-part bach chorale snippets.

[ozornin]

It becomes important if you play with other people though

[Ericson2314]

Even then, you need to tune against those other people. Perfect pitch is not so precise that everyone can just start on exactly the same note hah.

[pil0u]

Ha, I thought I could "sing" the notes, like reading them out loud (which is what my mentor suggests me to work on)

[dhosek]

Joining a good choir can do a lot to really build your ear in this respect. Generating a note from within your body does so much more to build your ear than generating a note by hitting a key or plucking a string (wind instruments are kind of a middle ground in this respect).

[rooster117]

You may be able to sing to it but since it's assuming the instrument to be in tune (piano) it may be slightly off and still register since it's estimating which note is most correct.

[doctorhandshake]

Do you mind if I ask what library or algorithm you’re using for pitch estimation?

[rooster117]

currently it's yin

[doctorhandshake]

Ah thank you I was not aware of that one.