Searching Sound 68
Technology Review has one of their few stories that's not registration-required describing searching audio files for any specified set of sounds. All sorts of interesting applications become possible if you can turn analog audio into a digitally-useful product without massive human intervention.
Usage scenario (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Usage scenario (Score:3, Interesting)
No really, what if they start bugging public places where people talk a lot (bars etc) and run the output through something like this? After acquiring a speech sample from bank/airport/whatever and thus connecting it to a person, it's a breeze to have a global textual log of everything the person says in a public place.
Of course, the article talks only about deconstructing the audio sample into words, but further analysis is a natural extension of the idea.
(/paranoia)
Where have they been? (Score:1, Funny)
Aren't CDs just that? If you really want to make a more usefull digital product, start scouting for some new tallent. American/Pop Idol isn't cutting it. :)~
been there, done that (Score:2, Informative)
Re:been there, done that (Score:1)
I played with The SDK a year ago. I suspect its gotten considerably better since then. In that respect, it is old news.
When you think about it... (Score:5, Interesting)
Tapping and bugging really does no good unless you've got someone listening all the time - and that's both expensive and impossible. While I realize that someone only has to be listening every time someone makes a phone call with the tapping situation, the outcome is lots more hours of audio then are feasible to search and use.
If we couldn't have searched audio on a wide scale before, then I find it hard to believe we'd ever be catching anyone by specific phone intercepts. Instead, we'd just be using that sort of thing as evidence.
I mean, I realize this is a great technology, I just doubt it's as "new" as it seems...
Re:When you think about it... (Score:2, Interesting)
It was done this way for many many years. It is partly why many investigations took a long time to be fruitfull. There are also laws in some states that do not allow for a tapping to continue if after "xyz time" has passed without any usefull information.
Re:When you think about it... (Score:3, Interesting)
What's new about this technology is that it does searches without transcription, but instead works at the phoneme level. This doesn't mean that the results are more accurate than if transcription and indexing are used. Its just that the new technique has applications in some cases that can't be handled by the conventional method, like when your model is inadequate, and you would lose information by converting phonemes into lexical form.
Its not clear how this sort of thing would be useful fo
Re:When you think about it... (Score:2)
Well, you could tap thousands of phone lines and search for phonemes that indicate the high level military commanders, etc. After you "found" one, you could immediately jump in and listen on it, or if the communication is laden enough, hit that phone-system. With the recent military advances and precision weapons, this isn't *that* hard to imagine.
I mean, with a powerful enough system, you could filter thousands of hours of data at on
Re:When you think about it... (Score:2)
Hmm.. phonemes just tell you what the sound is, they contain no information about the voice.
Re:When you think about it... (Score:1)
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Re:When you think about it... (Score:1)
Oh well, never mind me.
Re:When you think about it... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:When you think about it... (Score:1)
There numerous packages/toolkits that can be used to do the same thing. (If your willing to take the time to put the pieces together). One is Praat [praat.org]. Its a (mostly) GPL toolkit for sound and speech analysis.
Re:When you think about it... (Score:2)
you just then go through the records.
if man spent 20 minutes per day in phone.. you need 20 mins to listen through those calls per day.. not much of a chore.
Re:When you think about it... (Score:2, Informative)
This technology would help immensely on message analysis. Evaluating messages typically is divided into two areas, signal analysis, and message analysis.
Sign
Does that mean... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Does that mean... (Score:2)
at (*shame-less plug*
school of CS which might be able to help you out.
The idea is that you hum or whistle a tune
into the microphone and the computer will then use
some fancy pattern-matching (I think) and spit out a song(s) that match. (From memory, too tired to look it up)
I have not seen this system in action, so I couldn't tell you how good it is. I don't think it works with MP3's though
I think one of my fellow students is working on
Oops, here's a link (Score:5, Informative)
Links to PS and PDF files are on this page
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~nzdl/publications/
(They are not going to like what I am about to do to their server
Re:Does that mean... (Score:2)
And then The Cheat comes in on his keyboard and he's like boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop!
And then I come in with And the dragon comes in the NIIIIIIIGGGGHTTTT!!!
Re:Does that mean... (Score:1)
Re:Does that mean... (Score:1)
Re:Does that mean... (Score:1)
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Faculty/bsmith/que
Voice Control (Score:1)
Re:Voice Control (Score:1)
Re:Voice Control (Score:1)
Re:Voice Control (Score:2)
Voice as an adjunct to keyboard/mouse would certainly be handy though.
Re:Voice Control (Score:2)
The fact is that we're used to keyboards and word processors, clipboards, etc. so we can't see another way of doing it. We also tend to
Re:Voice Control (Score:1)
While I figure I may want voice control someday when my eyeballs or fingers don't work so good anymore, I've always figured that's a less-than-optimum workaround needed because the more efficient means of interconnection are impaired. Now if you are a hunt-and-peck typist and didn't find the move to mouse input akin to amputating 9 fingers, perhaps you'll prefer voice I/O. However, you'll be way behind those who have no problem with adapting to technology, just like those were who insisted that automobile
Google for sounds? (Score:2, Interesting)
Listening to all those techno remixes, I always have a hard time trying to find out where those cute backgound soundbytes came from...only to find out it was a heavily distorted Mozart or a mixed up vocal of JFK.
Re:Google for sounds? (Score:1)
Oh, NO! (Score:1, Insightful)
Dialoggle... no... Earggle... (Score:1, Funny)
If you can search websites and images, jobs and news articles, sound bytes would be the logical next step.
One good implementation (Score:2, Informative)
The research for the fast-talk technology was done at Georgia Tech's Interactive Media Technology Center [gatech.edu] (IMTC). They've got a page about the corporate spin-off [gatech.edu] of the technology.
Index or no index? (Score:4, Insightful)
Then on the second page, they say that some sort of pre-processing is needed:
So I see no revolution here... it's just about indexing the phonemes of a audio stream and then searching these, right?
Re:Index or no index? (Score:1)
Stop thinking like a geek!
By "indexing", they mean creating a list of every place a particular phoneme occurs. Think of an index like you find in the back of a book...
I said "moos" (Score:1)
But I don't say "hoos".
RIAA funding forthcoming? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:RIAA funding forthcoming? (Score:2, Funny)
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Animals? (Score:1)
Google for ... (Score:1)
Web Images Sounds Groups Directory News
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I can see it now ...
-- Dossy
Soundtrack (Score:2)
Music 'fingerprints' - Polyphonic HMI (Score:1)
findsounds.com (Score:2)
http://findsounds.com/