Scalable Sound Sensing for People-Centric Mobile Phone Apps

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Scalable Sound Sensing for People-Centric Mobile Phone Apps

Using the microphone on a cell phone,SoundSense software picks up sounds and automatically classifies sounds as "voice," "music," or "ambient noise."

The architecture and algorithms are designed for scalability. SoundSense uses a combination of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to classify both general sound types (e.g., music, voice) and discover novel sound events specific to individual users.

If a sound is repeated often enough or for long enough, SoundSense gives it a high...

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