Have you ever had a song stuck in your head and no matter what you can’t recall it’s title? Well now you can just hum, sing or whistle to your phone and Google’s newest feature will identify it for you.
The technology to identify songs through means other than lyrics alone already dates a decade, being present in 2009 in the app SoundHound, however it operated by matching the tonne to a database of already identified songs through humming, whistling and singing. Google launched it’s music identifying AI in 2017 with the Pixel 2 smartphone, and expanded it the following year to the SoundSearch feature in the Google app. This new feature takes it a step further “because now we can recognize songs without the lyrics or original song. All we need is a hum,” according to The Keyword.
The technology works by turning the melody of the 10-15 second clip of humming into a numbers-based sequence. It is then used “to identify songs based on a variety of sources, including humans singing, whistling or humming, as well as studio recordings.” The algorithms also strip all unwanted details like background noise. Then it produces a list of most likely results based on the tune.
The new feature is currently only available on mobile devices in the Google app, Google Search widget and Google Assistant. It works on Android in 20 different languages and in English only on IOS. How accurate the technology is and whether people will use it only time will tell.
https://blog.google/products/search/hum-to-search
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/google-has-a-new-humming-feature-for-your-phone-heres-how-it-works/
I waited for something like that. Hope it will be good enough to attract a large number of users, as it would make it better with time. If it’s not good enough it may scare people away and that would be a shame.
Ohh, I will definitely use it! Hope it will work properly, I can’t tell how many times I was having a song in my head and couldn’t find it!
I want them to record user’s humming, whistling, or singing just to make fun of these weird sounds)))
But of course, this is valuable technology I will definitely use.