Our mission

Music is the world's universal form of communication. It touches every person and every culture on the globe to the tune of $40 billion annually, and the U.S. recording industry accounts for $14.3 billion in 2000.

Throughout history people have processed music differently from the way they would process reading or writing. The human brain tends to associate music and sound in a unique way allowing people to remember a sound or melody without associating the proper textual connotation.

Over the last decade recent enhancements in technologies have allowed people to more efficiently locate or find things in their day to day life. Anything from weather information to online directions is at the tip of the finger of almost every average internet user.

Anything that has related to reading or writing has been efficiently indexed and retrieved by the existing search technologies however what these technologies have not been able to do is efficiently index and retrieve audio.

Imagine you are at a party and you hear a song you really like. After returning home you remember the song and want to listen to it again however you can't seem to remember the words or the name of the song. You decide to visit your favorite search engine only to find that the results are unsuccessful because you don't quite remember the artist or title.

What if you could sing that song into a search engine that would efficiently match your singing to the correct song?

That's where Sloud comes in.

The current available technologies for the indexing and retrieval of sound and music are all based on textual descriptions. Sloud, Inc. has developed a number of technologies that uses a human voice or a recording to efficiently locate and retrieve sound, to find music perceptually similar to a given sample.

With Sloud a person can lookup that one song that has been stuck in his head for years and finally know who performed it, and then to find other musical compositions that would sound similar to it.

The future of this technology can be limitless.