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Songs with extended voice narration

ifconfig · 2011-11-07 12:47:04

We are doing an experiment at the moment just trying to assess how good Shazam is at recognising music tracks where there is a portion of pure voice/narrative without any accompanying musical backdrop. Does anyone know of a good candidate track which we can test this with ? I am guessing we'd need 10-20 seconds of…

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We are doing an experiment at the moment just trying to assess how good Shazam is at recognising music tracks where there is a portion of pure voice/narrative without any accompanying musical backdrop.

Does anyone know of a good candidate track which we can test this with ?
I am guessing we'd need 10-20 seconds of uninterrupted chatter by the artist so that we can fire that at Shazam or other music id programs, eg Soundhound, MusicID, etc.

-ifc

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#2 07-11-2011 1:57pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXDAhnbYobE

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Many thank Android66... bang goes the theory....
Both Shazam and SoundHound had no difficulty whatsoever in IDing that !!!

--ifc

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#4 07-11-2011 8:56pm
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How 'bout this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-YiaWDgB4

Edit: Oops, just saw this:

ifconfig wrote:

without any accompanying musical backdrop.

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