Midomi: A search engine that listens you singing
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The voice search market welcomes another player. US company Midomi allows users who only know the tune but not its title, to sing it online and get the answer. They won’t need to be a great singer, the company claims its voice engine can recognize a tune even if users hum, sing or whistle into their computer microphone.
“Midomi uses a proprietary Multimodal Adaptive Recognition System (MARS) Search developed by Melodis Corporation. The MARS Search analyzes each element independently and adapts to the stronger components,” Search Engine Watch reports. “For instance, MARS Search takes speech content into account if the user sings the lyrics and ignores speech content if the user hums or whistles the song.”
Midomi also intends to become a social network. A new creative program that is designed to virtually vocalize your hidden talents made possible by this continuing advancement in broadband service of multi-media accessibility and technology. Users who have created a profile can sing their favorite songs, share them with others and add them to the search engine’s music database. The site provides users a system to rate the performances of other users, view their photos, and send them messages.
Us: Unfortunately, we’re such a bad singer that Midomi cannot recognize any songs we tried. Our version of James Brown’s “I feel good” gave us some Red Hot Chili Peppers’ tunes.
Discolure: Part of this post has been updated with a paid link. Thanks for your understanding.
Feb 2, 2007 | By Nuno
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