Your phone's ability to identify any song it listens to is pure technological magic. In this article, we'll show you how the ever popular Shazam app does it.
Ever Wonder How the Shazam Algorithm Works?
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Sovietrebel
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Woha! Super interesting article! Please more articles like this one!
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gabelogan1324
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This article is amazing 
please do more of it
please do more of it 
Bruno M. Villar
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What about turning Abracadabra into a meow-cadabra thing? Some sort of app that listen to cat sounds and translare what each meow want to say? (considering you previously already provided a example database of what you think your cat is saying)
LetTheWookieWin
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I’ll echo others and agree that this was a fantastic article; very well-written and logically broken down.
The article reminded me of my semester of Signals and Systems in college (CompEng major). In that course, we spent about 95% of our time pulling our hair out doing convolution in the time domain, only to learn at the end that we could use a Fourier transform and use integration in the frequency domain (something dramatically easier to understand). We all felt like saying, “thanks for telling us this earlier, a-$@&$s!” to the professor and the TAs.
The article reminded me of my semester of Signals and Systems in college (CompEng major). In that course, we spent about 95% of our time pulling our hair out doing convolution in the time domain, only to learn at the end that we could use a Fourier transform and use integration in the frequency domain (something dramatically easier to understand). We all felt like saying, “thanks for telling us this earlier, a-$@&$s!” to the professor and the TAs.
Great article on a topic that I have wondered about for years!
In the middle of the article, the section of Spectrograms, you say:
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The Z-axis is represented by color in the spectrogram above. Bright green shows a high magnitude for a particular frequency component and dark blue shows a low magnitude.
Looking at the spectrogram above, you can see that the brightest spots (strongest frequencies) almost exclusively occur below 5000Hz.
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But I don't see it. I see a rectangle that has bright green all over the place, not just in the lower quarter? What am I missing? Perhaps another paragraph, zooming in on a section to explain this would be helpful.
Thanks and, again, excellent work.
In the middle of the article, the section of Spectrograms, you say:
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The Z-axis is represented by color in the spectrogram above. Bright green shows a high magnitude for a particular frequency component and dark blue shows a low magnitude.
Looking at the spectrogram above, you can see that the brightest spots (strongest frequencies) almost exclusively occur below 5000Hz.
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But I don't see it. I see a rectangle that has bright green all over the place, not just in the lower quarter? What am I missing? Perhaps another paragraph, zooming in on a section to explain this would be helpful.
Thanks and, again, excellent work.
I think you mean AbraCATabra. Thank you very much. Tip your waitress. I'll be here all week.
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