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Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

comex wrote: post #14

Only available on mobile, huh? Reminds me of Google Translate on photos/images, which has been available for years on mobile but never on web. I hope this doesn't become a trend.

But you are aware that the vast majority of users would be on mobile, right?

I mean I recognize that Translate on images in the browser - especially if combined with Youtube and Image Search - would be incredibly powerful, but it just wouldn't be as much a thing on desktop.

I'm pretty sure (don't quote me on this) that there's a bit of processing done on the device (character recognition / isolation) before sending it off to Translate as well; not sure how well that would port to a browser. Should work just fine with wasm though.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

NobodyNada wrote: post #123
yingw787 wrote: post #10

I'm reminded of the CollegeHumor "If Google was a Guy skit": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxqca4RQd_M "song that goes meow meow meow meow meow meow", can't find it at the moment for a timestamp. Wonder how many real queries of that actually happen.

Well, there was this (now-deleted) song-identification-request posted on Stack Exchange a few months ago: https://i.stack.imgur.com/31A2G.png > I have the tune in my head of a metal song. but I can't figure out. It's goes like on guitar ha ha ha. ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

This thing will be interesting for metal given how so much of it doesn't have a discernable melody or comprehensible lyrics, :D

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by yamrzou »

This cool, I always wanted something like this.

I'm wondering how did they construct the dataset to train ML models on it. Did they just recruit "labelers" who hummed for evey song? Or maybe do they have an automated way to detect humming in youtube videos, and later label those with the corresponding song?

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by scraft »

Colour me amazed! I saw a video of some buskers which someone shared a week ago and the tune I know but couldn't remember where it was from, it is a waltz and I thought maybe Swan Lake or Nutcracker but after listening to the soundtracks it clearly was not. At some point I was going to work out the melody on the piano (very basic strap line) and use that to search (there are a few sites which offer this and I have had luck with it in the past). But I just tried humming to Google, I have a sore throat after a minor op, have not long got up, and can't hum or hold a tune to save my life, but low and behold it offered up 3 results and it was the second one.

The Second Waltz, Johann Strauss.

Okay, a very famous piece of music, and a very recognizable melody, but I just thought my warble was so far off that most humans wouldn't be able to tell me what it was!

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by kieckerjan »

WoodenChair wrote: post #121

SoundHound came out with this feature in their iPhone app in 2008. It worked well in my experience. It’s amazing how quick we are to go ooo ahhh when big tech replicates what is already common place in little tech or academia.

I seem to remember that they even had an option to play back recordings of other users who hummed the same song you were humming. Of course it was a privacy minefield, so that feature was discontinued pretty quickly. But it was hilarious while it lasted, hearing e.g. a Japanese granny croon Madonna.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by theobeers »

sircastor wrote: post #149
harpratap wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are underestimating how popular Soundhound was (or overestimating how popular Google's version is). I bought my first smartphone just because I was blown away by Soundhound app. I was going to upgrade a year later but apps like SoundHound sealed the deal for me

My wife and I had a real wow moment with Shazam after we’d taken a trip to Germany and she’d heard some music played on a carousel at a park. She had a video of the carousel running and we played it to Shazam. In about 20 Seconds we were listen to a very similar recording of “Sie will nicht blumen und nicht schokolade” (She doesn’t want flowers or chocolate). It was a really awesome moment of technology working for u…

Wow, nice find! I'm glad I scrolled through the YouTube comments a bit to see this note on the background of the recording in wartime Berlin:

"Recorded in Berlin, June 17, 1941. This was based on an old Yiddish song 'Yossel, Yossel' (by Nellie Casman) which Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin later retitled 'Joseph, Joseph.' Wonder if the censors realized this."

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by kennyadam »

Anyone remember the website that helped you ID a song by tapping out it out with the space bar? Song Tapper it might have been called, but the site seems to be long dead, sadly.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by elcomet »

kennyadam wrote: post #187

Anyone remember the website that helped you ID a song by tapping out it out with the space bar? Song Tapper it might have been called, but the site seems to be long dead, sadly.

It's called musipedia and it's still on!

https://www.musipedia.org/query_by_tapping.html

You can also search by melody or by contour

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