Innovation of the Week: Sing to computer to download a song


Posted by: meikah | 27 July 2007 | 9:46 pm

Did you ever experience trying to search a song, which title you forgot?

Well, modern technology may have the answer to your dilemma. There is an ongoing research which will let you search a song by singing it to your computer.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reports:

Australian computer scientist Dr Sandra Uitdenbogerd from RMIT University says retrieving music by singing will be possible with one of the next generation of search programs.

Uitdenbogerd says one form of retrieving audio by singing will involve users calling up a specific website then singing a tune or lyrics into a computer microphone to submit their query.

The computer will then search the website’s database to retrieve a menu of digital files, which the user can then choose from to download.

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