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Have you ever had a song stuck in your head but you can’t remember the lyrics??
All you have to go on in your head is some melody and it feels like you’re going crazy just trying to figure it out! You hum it, whistle it and even sing it but it just won’t come to you!
Until now.
Google has introduced a new feature that allows you to do just that! Hum, sing, or whistle a song to find out what it is!
The company recently announced their brand new search feature, aptly named “hum to search”.
All you would have to do is to the tap the mic icon on your mobile device and say “What’s this song?” or click the “Search a song” button to activate the feature. Then simply hum, sing or whistle away that tune in your head into your phone!
Google’s AI algorithms will then take over and try its best to identify the song that’s stuck in your head and display the most likely options based on the tune.
From there, you’ll be able to select the best matched song and finally get that sense of peace!
Users of the new feature will also be given options to “explore more information about the song and artist, view any accompanying lyrics, read analysis or even check out other recordings of the song if they’re available,” Variety shared.
“When you hum a melody into Search, our machine learning models transform the audio into a number-based sequence representing the song’s melody,” said Krishna Kumar, senior product manager for Google Search, in a blog post.
Here’s how it works:
“An easy way to explain it is that a song’s melody is like its fingerprint: They each have their own unique identity. We’ve built machine learning models that can match your hum, whistle or singing to the right ‘fingerprint’.
When you hum a melody into Search, our maching learning models transform the audio into a number-based sequence representing the song’s melody. Our models are trained to identify songs based on a variety of sources, including humans singing, whistling or humming, as well as studio recordings. The algorithms also take away all the other details, like accompanying instruments and the voice’s timbre and tone. What we’re left with is the song’s based sequence, or the fingerprint.
We compare these sequences to thousands of songs from around the world and identify potential matches in real time,” the blog reads.
The feautre is currently available in English on iOS and in more than 20 languages on Android.
We’re so glad that this feature has finally been introduced! Now we’ll never get another song stuck in our heads for days without knowing what it is!
Do you have a song stuck in your head? Try out the new search and let us know if they got it right!
Info via Google + Variety