Google has introduced a new feature called 'hum to search'

Sometimes happens some catchy and loving song stuck in your mind but you don't remember that what was the song and what was the artist's name, and you just had just remembered the tone of the song, so to avoid this problem Google has introduced a new feature called 'hum to search'.

This 'hum to search' feature will help you to identify the song by simply humming, whistling, or singing the tone through machine learning. This new feature will available for android, ios, and smart speakers that use voice assistance.

How to use 'hum to search'

To use this feature you must have the updated version of Google assistance on your phone. after updating your voice assistance, you have to just ask 'what's this song or you can also click on the newly added feature "search a song" to use this feature.

After finishing humming the song google's machine learning algorithm will help you identify the song according to its potential of the song matches. Consequently, to use the 'hum to search' you don't need to have a perfect pitch of voice.

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How machine recognize the melodies 

Google says when you hum a melody into Search, our machine learning models transform the audio into a number-based sequence representing the song’s melody. Our models are trained to identify songs based on a variety of sources, including humans singing, whistling, or humming, as well as studio recordings. The algorithms also take away all the other details, like accompanying instruments and the voice's timbre and tone. What we’re left with is the song’s number-based sequence or the fingerprint

This new feature is available in English on ios and in more than 20 languages on android, google is planning to add more languages in the future.