[extropy-chat] Project anyone?

[Kat Walsh]

On 1/18/06, kevinfreels.com <kevin at kevinfreels.com> wrote:
>  Has anyone considered building a piece of software which would allow a user
> to hum a few parts of a tune and have the software provide a list of
> possible songs along with clips of the song itself? Would some level of AI
> provide better results than brute force pattern recognition?

Try searching for the phrase "query by humming" and see what comes up.
In short, yes, often considered; there are several demos out though
most only work on a small corpus yet, and may not give good
suggestions depending on various factors including how badly you hum!

The Music Information Retrieval bibliography search
<http://www.music-ir.org/research_home.html> can point you to some
work on the topic, though I'm not up enough on it to go ahead and pick
out the good ones for you.

-Kat
musician and longtime lurker

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