There was a paper at Webmedia 2005 describing a system -- deployed in early 2005 -- used for real-time audio finger printing that does the same, AFAIK.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1114223.1114238
This paper describes a scalable real-time audio fingerprinting system developed by IBOPE Midia for radio and TV broadcast monitoring. A special temporal feature extraction strategy based on the Short-Time Fourier Transform has been designed. When given an input stream to analyse, the system matches it against the database and automatically recognizes instances of the previously registered samples within the input stream. The algorithm exploits the temporal evolution of the signal frequency spectrum in order to identify patterns and produce the final classification. The database is clusterized in order to provide an efficient and scalable search strategy. The system has been assessed using a database containing 393 distinct commercials. A 41-hour audio stream from three different TV channels has been analysed in less than 3 hours, attaining a 95.4% recognition rate.
Here in brazil, ALL ATMs allow you to do this stuff: pay bills, transfer money to accounts (at the same or other banks), deposits, buy credits for cell phone, print your transactions... We do not mail checks with bills on an envelope to pay them: in fact, the brazilian legislation does not allow you to mail money.
Besides doing that on the ATM, on most banks you can do this using internet or cell phone (WAP) -- except the physical-money-handling part, of course!:)
In most banks, the use of such services is included in the monthly fee you pay to keep your account. In my case, around US$3.00/month one one bank and ZERO on the other. The last time I went to my bank was to reset the internet-access password, 6 months ago.
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There was a paper at Webmedia 2005 describing a system -- deployed in early 2005 -- used for real-time audio finger printing that does the same, AFAIK.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1114223.1114238
This paper describes a scalable real-time audio fingerprinting system developed by IBOPE Midia for radio and TV broadcast monitoring. A special temporal feature extraction strategy based on the Short-Time Fourier Transform has been designed. When given an input stream to analyse, the system matches it against the database and automatically recognizes instances of the previously registered samples within the input stream. The algorithm exploits the temporal evolution of the signal frequency spectrum in order to identify patterns and produce the final classification. The database is clusterized in order to provide an efficient and scalable search strategy. The system has been assessed using a database containing 393 distinct commercials. A 41-hour audio stream from three different TV channels has been analysed in less than 3 hours, attaining a 95.4% recognition rate.
Here in brazil, ALL ATMs allow you to do this stuff: pay bills, transfer money to accounts (at the same or other banks), deposits, buy credits for cell phone, print your transactions... We do not mail checks with bills on an envelope to pay them: in fact, the brazilian legislation does not allow you to mail money.
:)
Besides doing that on the ATM, on most banks you can do this using internet or cell phone (WAP) -- except the physical-money-handling part, of course!
In most banks, the use of such services is included in the monthly fee you pay to keep your account. In my case, around US$3.00/month one one bank and ZERO on the other. The last time I went to my bank was to reset the internet-access password, 6 months ago.