August 1, 2007
Musical search engine to come soon
The search engines of today might be able to do just word and images searches, but how many of them will be able to take a sound sample and retrieve similar tunes? USA Today reports.
"An Australian computer scientist believes that the upcoming search engines in the future will be able to do just that - retrieve music on your behalf whenever you belt out a tune to your computer. She strongly holds on to her views that the next three to four years will see such a search engine appear on anyone who loves music. "
... This project she’s talking about currently concentrates on a specialized music search engine that is capable of retrieving audio by singing, requiring users to log on to a specific website and singing a short snippet or lyrics straight into the computer microphone as a query submission.
The computer will get to work straight away, searching the website’s database and retrieving a menu of digital files where the user can then download.
Those with a lack of talent in the singing department will receive less accurate results, underlining the importance of the quality of your voice when singing a search."
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