Query by humming with the vocalsearch system

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 49-52

  Birmingham, William ^a,b   Dannenberg, Roger ^c   Pardo, Bryan ^a,d  

^a Computer Science Department ^*

^b GROVE CITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELODIC ENCODING; QUERY BY HUMMING (QBH); STRING ALIGNMENT; VOCALSEARCH SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USER INTERFACES;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 33747192009     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1145287.1145313     Document Type: Review

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