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Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by can16358p »

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 remember that feature. Out of my, like 20 to 30 tries, it literally worked only once. I told about that feature to my friends too but they said that it wasn't working either.

So it was really not working at an acceptable level, or both me and my friends are terrible hummers.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by can16358p »

JxLS-cpgbe0 wrote: post #81
smusamashah wrote: post #17

Only works for English songs. I searched for a Pakistani song as famous as national anthem ("dil dil Pakistan"). It couldn't find it. I was thinking it learns the tune of song and matches with that so language should not matter. It worked for "Desert Rose" though. Edit: Also worked for an Indian song. Also worked for few other recent famous Pakistani songs. I guess the first song that I searched is probably not liste…

> This feature is currently available in English on iOS, and in more than 20 languages on Android

I think it's talking about the interface language, not the actual content. I'm pretty much sure it connects to the same endpoints for the actual hum and data, so there should be no difference.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by rorosaurus »

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.

That was my first thought too. SoundHound worked 90% of the time for me, very impressive for the day IMO. Too bad it was fairly short-lived - I think they removed that functionality within a year or two. It's nice to have the ability to search like this again.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by can16358p »

dwighttk wrote: post #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?

The model behind probably doesn't really check for individual notes and their roots. It "listens" like a human listens (people recognize songs when you hum a piece of song, even though it's not correct root/interval/perfect pitch) so your hum doesn't need to be perfectly music-theory-accurate.

Re: Hum to Search Song

#165

Post by robbomacrae »

can16358p wrote: post #161
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 remember that feature. Out of my, like 20 to 30 tries, it literally worked only once. I told about that feature to my friends too but they said that it wasn't working either. So it was really not working at an acceptable level, or both me and my friends are terrible hummers.

I worked there from 2012 for 5 years. The query by humming was pretty amazing to me which is why I joined. And I'm pretty terrible at humming... Unfortunately though the database wasn't as extensive as the direct music match database. Perhaps you were trying songs that weren't included?

Fun anecdote: I witnessed one user sing a song into SH so pitch perfect that (from the results) it had made a direct music match!

We often heard that Google were attempting to replicate this technology. They even hired key employees involved in this part of the app. Still we maintained that particular technical moat for 12 years!

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by can16358p »

vespakoen wrote: post #106

I had an idea some years ago to make this app but based around a community of helping others find their song by humming and finding your own songs, i have a 2 year old react-native project with a basic working version [1] I don't have time to finish it but i would love it if somebody would make this [1] https://github.com/vespakoen/ontheweb/tree/master/humminggur...

Just a small follow up: in your repo home I tapped the link for humming guru, but the SSL certificate is for another domain and the browser complains.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by easywood »

DAMMIT IT WORKS!!! Just found David's song from the Kelly family. In my memory I always though it was an Asian song or something :-) Now this is the kind of progress I like to see in technology. It's about time I'm getting something out of living in the future.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by Kiro »

surround wrote: post #31

> This feature is currently available in English on iOS, and in more than 20 languages on Android. And we hope to expand this to more languages in the future. What? Humming is not different across dialects.

The interface is.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by Kiro »

freeone3000 wrote: post #37

Silence detection is awful, and there's no way to manually end recognition, so I literally cannot use this.

I think it stops at detection, not silence. If the prompt continues you should keep humming.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by WoodenChair »

jodrellblank wrote: post #141
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.

Recently getting on a tirade about how utterly pointless the comment "Linux had this first!" "Android had this first!" "Lisp had this first!" is. It's just as bad when it's "iPhone had this first!". So what? > 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. Translation: "You're dumb for liking this thing I had years ago". What an empty com…

> Translation: "You're dumb for liking this thing I had years ago". What an empty comment.

That’s just your extremely uncharitable and incorrect insinuation of my comment. What I was saying was not about the user’s reaction to the feature but instead about the admiration of the company. It’s not impressive if Ford uses a wheel on their car because a wheel is old technology that others have already done well.

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