Midomi.com Spreads Holiday Cheer Around the World

Midomi.com Spreads Holiday Cheer Around the World

SUNNYVALE, California, December 20/PRNewswire/ --

- Music-Centric Social Networking Community Expands Language Offerings in
Polish, German, Portuguese and Korean

Melodis Corp., a leader in search and sound recognition technologies,
today announced the availability of Midomi.com in German, Korean, Portuguese
and Polish. This latest advancement allows people to find, share, and record
versions of music in these languages just in time for the holidays.

Through advanced sound recognition technology, the site allows users to
search for music by singing or humming a few bars of a song and record their
own rendition of a tune to share with others. The comprehensive,
user-generated database is comprised of more than 200,000 songs and
growing daily, including many of today's favorite holiday jingles. With the
addition of these four languages, the Midomi interface is now available in a
total of 10 languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Italian
and French.

"Midomi.com offers a unique and easy way to record and send personalized
holiday messages to friends and family around the world," said Keyvan
Mohajer, chief executive officer of Melodis. "To date, Midomi visitors have
contributed songs in more than 33 languages. In the future, we hope to make
the site interface available in even more languages to support the
collaboration, contribution and discovery of music around the world."

Mohajer points out that it's no easy task to develop a technology that
recognizes the many variations a song that can be sung or hummed in English
let alone in so many related languages.

"The technology behind Midomi analyzes pitch, melody, rhythm, speech and
phonetic content as well as other sound features. It then compares those
measurements with the user generated database and matches accordingly," said
Mohajer. "The technology has a 95 percent accuracy rate."

For music enthusiasts and artists alike, the site enables them to
discover and be discovered, helping to establish a unique presence and build
a viral fan base in a fun and intuitive way. The free member-based service,
which was named one of the top technology innovations of 2007 by Popular
Science's 20th Annual Best of What's New (BOWN) Awards, requires a computer
microphone to sing and record music on the site.

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, on mobile devices and in other areas. To
date, Melodis' technologies have been applied to music search, text search
and speech recognition, and additional applications are currently under
development. Melodis has an established base of partners. The Melodis
management team is comprised almost entirely of graduates from Stanford
University.

With the launch of its new online community, http://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.

Web site: http://www.midomi.com

Source: Midomi

Midomi, +1-408-524-1500, press@midomi.com

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