Get IT savvy to overcome your musical dilemma

A computer science expert has developed a technology that recognises melody and searches the Internet to track down information about a song, thereby helping people to remember its words.

Sydney, Aug.15 : A computer science expert has developed a technology that recognises melody and searches the Internet to track down information about a song, thereby helping people to remember its words.

Dr. Sandra Uitdenbogerd, of Australia's RMIT University, believes that the googling of words will generate fast and accurate results, but cautions that this music-recognising technology will not fully help the tone-deaf overcome their struggle to learn words.

She said that being able to track down the title of a classical music composition was incredibly hard, and many composers may have struggled to work out if a piece of music had been written already.

"The idea of music searches by singing was born out of my frustration of not knowing whether I had stolen someone else's melody when writing music inspirationally," she said, adding that now with her discovery, all users needed were a microphone, an internet connection and the software to begin the search for any tune.

"The singing is stored in the computer as a wave form, and then, must be converted into note information before it can be matched against the music," news.com.au quoted Dr. Uitdenbogerd, as saying.

Currently, the technology can only search for simple MIDI files, but Dr Uitdenbogerd said MP3 compatible software would be her next goal.

ANI