Shazam for raagas
Play it a few seconds of Carnatic music: it names the raaga, and shows you how to recognise it yourself.
Identify a raaga
Works best with a tanpura or shruti-box drone under the melody. The tonic (Sa) is found from it.
Your recording is never stored. It's analysed to find the raaga, then discarded.
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About 15–30 seconds of melody is enough. At a concert, just let it hear the singer over the drone.
The tanpura drone fixes the tonic (Sa). Every note is then heard relative to it, the way a listener does.
The top three raagas with honest confidence, the Sa it heard, and a plain-language note on how to hear that raaga.
twelveswaras is non-commercial and open source, never a product, owned by no company. It pairs a raaga-recognition model with a community-built, openly-licensed data commons, so it keeps getting better.
The twelve swaras are the twelve note-positions of the octave, the shared alphabet of Carnatic and Hindustani music. Carnatic is where we start; the name, schema and pipeline are tradition-neutral by design, with Hindustani planned as a fast-follow.
Yes, a concert has a tanpura drone, which is exactly what it needs to find the tonic. Point your phone at the stage for about 30 seconds. Solo singing with no drone is unreliable.
Yes. Non-commercial, MIT-licensed code, a CC-BY-4.0 data commons, and no sign-up. It is a public good, not a product.
40 Carnatic raagas in this version, a mix of the common melakarta and janya raagas you hear in concerts. Hindustani is planned.
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