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JACOB WARD, KARAOKE KING

In karaoke bars, I belt out my favorites without shame, but when I tried midomi.com, I had to croon softly so my boss in the next office wouldn’t hear. Even at that volume, the site—which IDs any tune you sing or hum into the computer microphone—still correctly guessed most of my medley. Midomi analyzes pitch, melody, rhythm and other features of sounds. It then compares those measurements against its database of 200,000 ditties sung and submitted by users. It finds the right match 95 percent of the time. It even pinpointed an obscure indie tune and “Every Time You Go Away,” written by, as I learned, Hall & Oates. midomi.com



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