collideous
July 31st, 2003, 09:14 AM
I found this on Heise.de (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-31.07.03-010/) (German IT news site) today:
It's an all-too familiar situation: You only need to hear a few bars of music on the radio for the song to get stuck in your mind. Then, when you're under the shower or wait in line at the grocery store, you can't stop whistling the catchy melody to yourself. Alas, the radio DJ failed to mention either the title of the song or the name of the artist. This makes it almost impossible to venture out and buy the CD, or download the song from a p2p network. Sales clerks in record stores will blankly shake their heads at your hummed rendition of the tune. It would all be much easier if you could search an archive capable of responding to your whistling, singing or humming by delivering the requested song. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS (http://cebit2003.fraunhofer.de/servlet/is/4107/) have recently come up with a system for melody recognition, the "Query by Humming (http://www.musicline.de/de/melodiesuche)" application. If someone wants to identify a musical item or song he simply sings a melody or plays it by an instrument. The melody search engine records the query and analyzes its melodic and rhythmic character. Both attributes are used for a database lookup. The melody theme that is found most similar is presented in first place of a ranked list as an answer to the user.
Try the Query by Humming (http://www.musicline.de/de/melodiesuche) search engine yourself. Note, the site's currently in German only.
It's an all-too familiar situation: You only need to hear a few bars of music on the radio for the song to get stuck in your mind. Then, when you're under the shower or wait in line at the grocery store, you can't stop whistling the catchy melody to yourself. Alas, the radio DJ failed to mention either the title of the song or the name of the artist. This makes it almost impossible to venture out and buy the CD, or download the song from a p2p network. Sales clerks in record stores will blankly shake their heads at your hummed rendition of the tune. It would all be much easier if you could search an archive capable of responding to your whistling, singing or humming by delivering the requested song. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS (http://cebit2003.fraunhofer.de/servlet/is/4107/) have recently come up with a system for melody recognition, the "Query by Humming (http://www.musicline.de/de/melodiesuche)" application. If someone wants to identify a musical item or song he simply sings a melody or plays it by an instrument. The melody search engine records the query and analyzes its melodic and rhythmic character. Both attributes are used for a database lookup. The melody theme that is found most similar is presented in first place of a ranked list as an answer to the user.
Try the Query by Humming (http://www.musicline.de/de/melodiesuche) search engine yourself. Note, the site's currently in German only.