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Query By Humming: Whistle While You Work

By Stuart Soffer on

For several years I’ve been following advances in ‘Music Information Retrieval’ (MIR), mostly through a Music IR list.   This heavily academic community presents its own annual conferences and competitions for best ‘recognizers.’  I find their work fascinating.

One aspect of the music IR world is ‘Query By Humming’ (useful for your car or cell phone), which is a form of a longstanding IR search paradigm called Query-By-Example.

This morning I see another web site www.midomi.com offering music recognition by voice via your own PC.  More information here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070201/wr_nm/website_dc.  There are other sites as well.

There are the underlying IP and Internet issues necessary to support Query-By-Humming, but I haven't seen any discussion.

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