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Searching Sound

Posted by michael on from the when-grep-isn't-enough dept.

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.

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  1. Oops, here's a link by madmarcel · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you really want to find out how it works:

    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 ;)