Song recognition tools analyze sound patterns. The clearer your humming, the better the match. Background noise can affect ...

The ability to hum a song to Google was the breakout hit of last month’s Search keynote. In a blog post today, Google explains how the machine learning that powers Hum to Search works. Hum to Search ...

YouTube Music for Android is finally releasing a long-awaited tool that lets people hum a song to search for it, in addition to singing the tune or playing the melody on an instrument, according to ...

Over a billion people every day use Google Search, the company said. Despite having worked on the software for more than 20 years, every day there are 15 percent of queries that Google has never seen ...

I remember the first time someone showed me the Shazam app, which can listen to a song and instantly tell you its title and artist. I probably wouldn’t have reacted much differently if someone had ...

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