NTT Demos Humming Recognition Technology

I missed this one earlier: As regular readers know, I’ve covered mobile music recognition services in some detail in the past: Shazam, MusicKube, Gracenote etc…
Next spring, NTT in Japan is going to launch a service, called SoundCompass System, which will allow users to find the names of songs by humming part of the melody into a mobile phone. All users have to do is hum at least 16 beats into a mobile phone after dialing a dedicated number for the service. Within 300 milliseconds, a list of possible matches, including the names of artists who have recorded the tunes, appears on the handset’s screen.

A Tokyo-based music publisher says, “There should be, say, 500,000 songs in the database before this kind of service can really be useful in terms of song recognition.”
The research paper describing this technology can be downloaded here (membership required)
Related:
Toshiba Search System Finds Songs Based On Tapped Rhythm
NTT’s New Music Recognition System
NTT Resonant Launches Mobile Music Recognition Service in Japan

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