Interesting how easy this is, while spoken word recognition is so hard. I think this is because 1) human speakers vary more in terms of the signal than our vari

Interesting how easy this is, while spoken word recognition is so hard. I think this is because 1) human speakers vary more in terms of the signal than our various song-playing devices and 2) spoken word recognition depends strongly on context, whereas song identity doesn't. Said another way, a lot of the challenges in language processing are not signal processing problems.