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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –

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.

SOURCE Midomi

CONTACT: Midomi,
+1-408-524-1500,
press@midomi.com
Web site: http://www.midomi.com