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.
Hum to Search Song
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#122This works relatively well! I am a non-native English speaker, and I have been trying songs from different countries. I did notice that English songs have a better match than songs from other regions and languages[0]. I wonder if their training dataset has "overfitted" to such music, or is such music inherently represented by some underlying features that are better distinguished than others. [0]: E.g. English ("My H…
It depends on how good you can hum, I tried couple of english songs (Fix You, Ophelia, etc) it was around 18-20%, "Kya Hua tera wada" a Hindi song was matched with 48% I believe
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#123I'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.
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Works for me in the iOS app. Tap the microphone in the search box, then tap Search a Song.
I was confused too at first. Installed the app and pressed the microphone icon, but didn’t notice the button. Was it even there? But then after I’d uninstalled the app I went back and reread the article and saw it say to press microphone and then button for search a song, reinstalled app and then I saw the button there. Still don’t know if it was there or not the first time around. Maybe I just didn’t see it? Either…
Can you tell me what version the app is?
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There's no Search a Song button for me. I just updated the app... edit: works for me now. After a few minutes the button just started showing up
Ditto over here, just updated and search a song is nowhere to be found.
I logged out of my Google account in the app (well switched to "use this app without account") and it started working.
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#127Wow, it's actually surprisingly fun to try to think of songs and hum or make similar noises to try to get google to come up with the right song.
I think I see a future party game. No song repeats, first person to fail to get Google to come up with the correct song while using no real words loses.
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#128SoundHound 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.
Shazam was decent too if you hum a song iirc
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#129SoundHound has had this feature for many years now, it's the main reason why I started using it rather than Shazaam. However we should not underestimate the significance of Google implementing this feature - humming to search songs will become much more mainstream now
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#130I 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?
A lot of what makes songs recognizable is the rhythm pattern, not the melody.
It wouldn't surprise me if this leaned heavily on rhythm as a signal.