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The company was co-founded in 2005 by Keyvan Mohajer, an Iranian-Canadian computer scientist and entrepreneur who specializes in voice AI. [11]In 2009, the company's music discovery app Midomi was rebranded as SoundHound, but is still available as a web version on midomi.com. [12] [13] The app grew from 2 million users in January 2010 to 100 million users in September 2012.
Midomi and Soundhound both offer query by humming. This is a branch off of acoustic fingerprints but is still a musical retrieval system. After receiving a user-generated hummed melody, which is the input query, the system returns a ranked list of songs that are closest to the user query.
Midori began as a lightweight [10] [11] web browser using the WebKitGTK rendering engine [10] and the GTK widget toolkit. Midori was part of the Xfce desktop environment's Goodies collection of applications [12] and followed the Xfce principle of "making the most out of available resources". [13]