We’re all in the same boat. At some point, you surely might have had a tune stuck in your head and you can’t remember the song.
You had to wait patiently for the song to hit you or never at all. But not anymore.
Google has launched a new AI tool that can listen to you humming the tune and find the song for you.
This tool by Google, can identify songs from you humming, singing or whistling the tune.
I wonder, how did they even create a tool for this?
The technology to match tones to a database of identified songs through singing, humming, and whistling — instead of from lyrics alone — has existed for more than a decade and was a staple in the music app SoundHound as far back as 2009.
This feature was announced on Thursday and is now being rolled out to iPhone and Android users. Currently, in iPhones it is available in English and in 20+ languages for Android users.
Hum to search feature is for mobile devices only for now. So, it won’t work on Google home or Nest speakers.
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See the hum to search feature in action
Open Google Assistant and say ‘Hey Google, what’s this song?.’
After this, hum the tune and Google will listen and run a search through its huge database for you.
See the results shown, did you find what you were looking for?
Google has been working on a new spell checking tool
The company has been talking about how it is working on applying AI and machine learning methods to improve the quality of search results. This will be happening over the coming weeks and months.
The new Google algorithm uses a deep neutral net that can understand misspelt searches more efficiently, in under 3 milliseconds.
“One in 10 queries every day are misspelt. Today, we’re introducing a new spelling algorithm that uses a deep neural net to significantly improve our ability to decipher misspellings,” said Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Search at Google.
Google says this change makes a greater improvement to spelling than all of its improvements over the last five years. Before introducing the spelling algorithm, the company tried to help with its ‘did you mean’ feature that suggests proper spellings.
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According to Raghavan, 15 percent of Google search queries each day are ones that Google has never seen before, meaning the company has to constantly work to improve its search results.
“We’ve recently made a breakthrough in ranking and we are now able to not just index web pages, but individual passages from the pages. By better understanding the relevancy of specific passages, not just the overall page, we can find that needle-in-a-haystack information you’re looking for,” said Raghavan.
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