A Search Hum-Dinger
July 28, 2010
We all knew the day would come when we could hum an unknown melody and our computer or phone would name that tune. What is surprising is how this wondrous little gadget will populate its data. Technology Review recently broke down the frontier Tunebot is trying to conquer in the article, “Query-by-Humming Musical Search Engine Launched”. Tunebot essentially allows users to hum their song and the possible results appear, but the designers had to find a way to populate the millions of songs with a user’s inability to match key, notes, timbre and other factors. The ingenious answer, which the article considered, “an elegant solution to the problem of melody recognition,” was to have a karaoke contest where users populate all the possible hums themselves. Tunebot’s brilliant collision of search technology and online community, makes this upstart a program to watch.
Pat Roland, July 28, 2010
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