Wednesday, 22. January 2003
Topic: - on January 22, 2003 at 10:34:48 AM CET
Humming helps name that tune
For better or worse, technological advances have transformed the music industry, but technology may now help even the tone-deaf to name that tune. Software developed by Germany's Fraunhofer Institut, the creators of the MP3 digital audio format that is now ubiquitous across the Internet, have a solution.
It's called "Query by Humming" -- software displayed at this week's Midem music conference in Cannes that identifies a song by title and composer based on a person humming a few bars into a microphone.
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