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

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Dec. 19, 2007 - 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 midomi

midomi mobile is the first-of-its-kind online music search engine where you can find songs by singing, humming, speaking, typing or playing original music sources into your iPhone. With new songs in 33 languages added to it each day by members all over the world, midomi is the largest online music repository of its kind.

midomi.com is a vibrant social networking destination for music lovers the world over. Currently available in ten languages and recognized by Popular Science magazine as one of the top global innovations of 2007, midomi.com is a community where you can come together with other music lovers to discover and be discovered.

About Melodis Corporation

MELODIS Corporation is building the next generation of search and sound recognition technologies for the Internet, mobility, robotics, security, home entertainment, automobiles and more. With the launch of midomi mobile and www.midomi.com, MELODIS has combined the world’s most powerful music search technologies with social networking, user-generated content and digital content distribution, and has developed the world’s most comprehensive database of searchable music.
Incorporated in September 2005 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, MELODIS is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors. For more information, visit www.melodis.com.

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