Have you ever had a tune get into your head, but you can’t figure out the name, despite all your efforts? If you’re like me, you may be bugged until you figure out just what the name is. Midomi just launched its beta today, and it claims to be able to identify a song that you hum, whistle or sing “to it.”
The underlying speech- and sound-recognition technology, dubbed Multimodal Adaptive Recognition System, or MARS, differs from similar technologies in that it looks at a variety of factors for recognizing samples, including pitch, tempo variation, speech content and location of pauses, said Chief Executive Keyvan Mohajer, who has a Ph.D. in sound- and speech-recognition from Stanford University. Source: News.com
Does it work? For my wife, yes; for me, no. But then, no one ever accused me of singing on key.
