It was a rather small step for us, but may increase the fun of playing with Chordino by a lot: in addition to the chord estimate, you can now choose a note output that returns the pitch classes of the…

In the photo: Masataka Goto (right) explaining the speech-recognition web service Podcastle to Katy Noland.

I can’t hide being impressed by Podcastle (http://podcastle.jp/). It’s a web-crawling speech recognizer that munches whole podcast series and provides you with a transcription.…

I’m really glad that Chris Cannam from the Centre for Digital Music recently asked me to publish some of my research code I developed there as open source software… we proudly present NNLS Chroma and Chordino! While NNLS-Chroma may…

Take a look at the image that comes with the article: it depicts a poster in which my boss Masataka Goto is featured on a painting (!) inviting everyone to come to his public lecture. When I grow up I…

Just a little teaser for all of you interested in chord recognition (sorry, the video is not available in some countries including Germany and Finland). If you can, see if you like it (available in HD).
Based on an…

The newest video Hiromasa Fujihara and I made of Song Prompter. Hiromasa is featured on guitar, and I sing and explain. Song Prompter now has a nice transposition function, and you can also speed up or slow down the song,…

The MIREX results are out. My submissions (MM1 and MD1) for the Audio Chord Estimation task take ranks 1 and 2 of 15, and in the Audio Structure Segmentation task my submission (MND1) ranks 1st of 6.…

I just finished a first draft of my ISMIR talk slides, in which I present the paper entitled “Approximate Note Transcription for the Improved Identification of Difficult Chords”. Have a look, if you wish.

These are my slides for the talk at the University of Rostock and SMC Conference in Barcelona, July 2010. No sound, no warranty, all subject to change.