Live data from Hacker News

Hum to Search Song

blog.google

91–100 of 231 posts

Re: Hum to Search Song

#91
Seems to work best with songs in English grom the 70's-90's (Billy Joel, Gerry Rafferty...)

Luttle luck with French songs, got weird matches that didn't sound at all like the original.

Zero luck with tunes from clqssical music, even with very well known arias.

May be an artifact of how this has been tested, and by whom...?

Re: Hum to Search Song

#94
post #64

I tried 3 songs: * Everybody Has a Dream by Billy Joel * Kids by MGMT * Good Day Sunshine by The Beatles 0 hits. I know I'm not the world's best singer, but I was humming the right notes.

I've gotten about 10 hits of 12, with such diverse things as "Bella Ciao" (Italian song), "Space Oddity" (the first few bars are practically a monotone), the Pink Panther (no words) and Kalasnjikov by Bregovic (random Serbian (?) words that I don't know).

It got MGMT's Kids no problem, and I know I sung out out of tune.

I'm very impressed.

I found out worked better if I use "doo dee doo dee doo" rather than humming.

Re: Hum to Search Song

#95

As a child I remember hearing a beautiful song, sung in Japanese (so not searchable by anglo me), and today I finally found it [1]. Thanks Google! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTsG9jrJsU

The English language version I'd always heard was the 4PM cover [0], which I just found out was originally by A Taste of Honey in the 80s [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueVjrc7YYoE

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFkUNqBwMw

Re: Hum to Search Song

#96
post #7

I just tried this with a melody I've had stuck in my head for days - no results. Then I tried "Happy Birthday" and got three results: "Las Mananitas" by Canticos "Iyi Ki Dogdun Melissa", by Eser Ulun "Iyi Ki Dogdun Zarife", by Eser Ulun I'm no Pavarotti, but I can sing on pitch and have played the violin for 40 years. EDIT: Heh, "Iyi Ki Dogdun" is Turkish for Happy Birthday, and the links would have taken me to YouTu…

I wonder, does it know how to transpose? People may end up humming tunes in different keys that their voices can more easily reach. Also, why the hell do I need an app for this? Is it actually running a local model? Because my guess is that it's just hitting an API.

I wondered whether pitch might play a role. EDIT: singing in a higher key got me English results, so I guess so?

There's no way it would do much locally, but maybe they just wanted to make sure the audio passed to the API has a certain sample rate and encoding?

Re: Hum to Search Song

#97
I wonder how well they handle peoples tendency to sort of drift out of a key. I can see transposing but keeping correct intervals, but what if the intervals are drifting away from true?

Re: Hum to Search Song

#99
post #94
post #64

I tried 3 songs: * Everybody Has a Dream by Billy Joel * Kids by MGMT * Good Day Sunshine by The Beatles 0 hits. I know I'm not the world's best singer, but I was humming the right notes.

I've gotten about 10 hits of 12, with such diverse things as "Bella Ciao" (Italian song), "Space Oddity" (the first few bars are practically a monotone), the Pink Panther (no words) and Kalasnjikov by Bregovic (random Serbian (?) words that I don't know). It got MGMT's Kids no problem, and I know I sung out out of tune. I'm very impressed. I found out worked better if I use "doo dee doo dee doo" rather than humming.

[deleted]

Re: Hum to Search Song

#100
post #80
post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdotally, it's 3/3 for me, one of which was Kids by MGMT. I'm seeing some fairly divergent results here, I wonder if it's highly sensitive to the particular user's voice.

Did you hum or sing? I wonder if that makes a difference. I hummed.

I hummed and it found it on the first try. Same for "In the end". On the other hand, I haven't had any luck humming "Clint Eastwood" by Gorillaz.
Post reply on HN