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Yahoo! Launches Audio Search Beta

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the listen-to-the-music dept.

guaigean writes "Internet News is running a story on a new Yahoo! service titled Yahoo! Audio Search and it is currently in beta. The tool allows the searching of audio files and Yahoo! claims to have 50 million music, voice, and other files cataloged in the search. It searches across multiple mainstream music sites, as well as plenty of independent pages. Now if only it was tied in with some sort of lyric search."

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  1. Re:And all you need... by sqrt(2) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, I remember seeing this somewhere. I want to say it was on the old tech TV (back before G4 ran it into the ground). You hum the tune of the song or audio clip and it matches it to similar sounding audio files.

    (As I was writing this I remembered the name)

    Query by hum, here is the website. querybyhum.cs.nyu.edu

    Interesting and fun, although not particularly useful, there are more efficient ways to search data (Metadata), although this way may be more natural to the way humans work. Not to mention the fact that it requires a rather time intensive process of creating profiles of each audio file to be matched against.

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