Automatic singing voice assessment, as an important task in Music Information Research (MIR), aims to extract musically meaningful information and measure the quality of learners' singing voice.  ...  Singing correctness and quality is culture-specific and its assessment requires culture-aware methodologies.  ...  Acknowledgements I am grateful to my stuttering -my lifelong companion, who teaches me compassion for the weak, patience, modesty and to never give up.  ...