Music Melody Matching Machine
Monday, March 14, 2005, 09:19 PM
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Abstract
I describe a simple computer-based melody matching system, based on comparing short monophonic audio recordings of pieces of tonal music. The process starts with the user singing a piece that they would like to identify into a microphone. The system then attempts to transcribe the recording from its audio representation into a string of quantized MIDI notes. For simplicity, the matching algorithm has been limited to just pitch data, but a more complete system would employ rhythmic and dynamic data as well to more accurately match pieces of music.
