Klarinet Archive - Posting 000205.txt from 2002/12

From: "Joon H. Huh" <joonhuh@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] I can name that tune in nine notes...
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:09:57 -0500

Wow! That's pretty cool. Go Big Red!!! =D

-Joon Huh
joonhuh@-----.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Simicich" <njs@-----.com>
> On TV yesterday, there was a short article about humming. They
> demonstrated someone humming into a computer to try to figure out what
song
> they were humming. The computer then searched a database and dug out the
> tune. I did a web search and found the paper.
>
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Faculty/bsmith/query-by-humming.html
>
> The paper is about a scheme for being able to figure out what a song is on
> the basis of being able to listen to someone hum a snatch of the song.
>
> ...
>
> Anyway, they found that nine notes were generally enough to determine
which
> song it was.

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