SUNNYVALE, California - February 27, 2008: Pioneering search and sound recognition company MELODIS Corporation today announced the launch of Midomi Mobile, its music search application for mobile devices.
Midomi Mobile allows users to search for music by singing, humming or even whistling into their mobile devices. The application accesses midomi's online user-generated database of songs and uses MELODIS' patented Multimodal Adaptive Recognition System (MARS) to identify what users are searching for. The midomi song database has become the largest user-generated repository of its kind since its launch in January 2007. The free, membership-based midomi community is also a vibrant social-networking destination on the Web-providing a forum for amateur and professional musicians, talent seekers, and music lovers around the world to discover and be discovered. Available for download free of cost at mobile.midomi.com, midomi mobile offers users a wide range of functionality. Having found a song using midomi mobile, users can play back the snippet from the rendition that matched their query or listen to other members' renditions that helped identify the song. midomi mobile also enables users to search for music videos playable on mobile devices through services such as YouTube. And, users can connect to midomi's social network through midomi mobile to access member profiles, recordings, playlists, and more. The company will soon offer additional functionality for midomi mobile users. Future releases will allow users to identify original music content, such as music broadcast through the radio. Users will also be able to search for music by speaking out the song title or artist's name, or by typing it without having to know the exact spelling. The initial release of midomi mobile is designed for mobile phones using the Symbian OS and the popular S60 platform. MELODIS plans to release support for additional platforms such as the S40 Java platform in the near future.
"An increasing number of music-enabled handsets are sold each year, and we aim to make midomi mobile available on all of these handsets. With the exciting functionality we're continuing to develop for midomi mobile, it will become the ultimate music search tool for the mobile market," says Keyvan Mohajer, CEO, MELODIS Corporation.
The commercial potential of midomi is growing rapidly, according to Mohajer: "Both at the website and on midomi mobile, we're providing advertising opportunities that are easily and quickly accessible for viewers and advertisers alike. This is allowing us to continue growing the services we can offer to our users and partners."
Recognizing its potential, Nokia has recently selected midomi mobile as the Application of the Week and it is showcased at Nokia's featured applications corner. (http://www.nokia.com/link?cid=EDITORIAL_894336) To download midomi mobile, users can visit mobile.midomi.com on their PC or m.midomi.com on their S60 phones.
About midomi
midomi (www.midomi.com) is the first-of-its-kind online music search engine and social community where you can find songs in the most intuitive way imaginable: sing a line, hum a few bars-even whistle your favorite tune! If it's not in the database, you can add it to the user-generated database by simply singing it in the midomi Studio. With new songs in 33 languages added to it each day by members all over the world, midomi has become the largest online repository of its kind.
Currently available in ten languages and recognized by Popular Science magazine as one of the top global innovations of 2007, the free, membership-based midomi community is a vibrant social-networking destination that strikes a chord with music lovers the world over. For amateur and professional musicians, and talent seekers, midomi has become a unique forum to discover and be discovered.
About MELODIS Corporation
Incorporated in September 2005, MELODIS Corporation is building the next generation of search and sound recognition technologies that are "Breaking the Silence?" in human-computer interaction. These technologies have a variety of applications on the Internet, mobile devices, robotics, security applications and much more. MELODIS' technologies have been applied to music search, text search and speech recognition, and additional applications are currently under development. The MELODIS management team is comprised almost entirely of graduates from Stanford University, and the company has strong backing from leading Silicon Valley investors.
With the launch of its online community, www.midomi.com , MELODIS has combined the world's most powerful search technologies with proven online models including social networking, user-generated content and digital content distribution, and is moving forward with its mission to build the world's most comprehensive database of searchable music.
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[Source: Just Another Mobile Phone Blog]
