MELODIS Partners with SAMSUNG to Provide Enhanced Music Search Capabilities

MELODIS Corporation has partnered with SAMSUNG Electronics to embed MELODIS Corporation's Midomi music search and ID application into SAMSUNG's multimedia phones on the Windows Mobile platform. This partnership now allows the users to identify music by holding the phone to a speaker as well as singing or humming in snippets.

 

Midomi will use its Sound2Sound Search Science technology in this partnership. This search engine bypasses traditional sound to text conversion techniques even when searching text databases and searches sound against sound. MELODIS claims that this provides an improved accuracy, faster response time and increased scalability.

 

As a result of this partnership, SAMSUNG customers who access Midomi will get the full advantage of the multimedia features included with SAMSUNG's newest high-performance phones. This partnership will enable the company to get a step ahead in realizing its mission of making sound and speech the preferred means to search and navigate information on mobile or IP connected devices, states the company.

 

“We are very pleased to partner with SAMSUNG to make our music search and ID technology available to Windows Mobile users," said Amir Arbabi, vice president of Business Development, MELODIS. "Midomi is a truly global product designed for deployment in multiple languages and on multiple platforms. SAMSUNG's launch of Midomi-enabled handsets represents the first step in what we see as a long-term, worldwide collaboration between our two companies.”

 

According to MELODIS, Midomi is used by millions of people around the world via the web and mobile devices, including the latest SAMSUNG handsets. Midomi also allows users to immediately and easily purchase the music they discover by integrating with wireless carriers' music stores.

 

Recently, Melodis announced that the company’s midomi search technology powers "Utatte Kensaku," a singing search feature in a lineup of KDDI's au Lismo Music Search mobile phone service. KDDI (News - Alert), a Japanese mobile carrier, and Sockets, an integrated service, database and embedded solution provider for mobile communications services, will integrate Melodis' midomi singing search into Lismo, KDDI's au mobile music platform.