Re: Sound recognition (not voice) - recording instances and duration of

[Marc_F_Hult <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:54:24 -0400, Marc_F_Hult
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>"Incorporating Contextual Audio for an Actively
>Anxious Smart Home" Simon Moncrieft et al
>http://www.computing.edu.au/~svetha/papers/papers2005/conferences/moncrieff_ISSNIP_2005_373-378.pdf
>
>The term "active anxiously" captures much.

including some dyslexia ? ;-)

Should be " actively anxious ". Excellent paper in general with respect to
home automation. Fodder for useful HomeSeer/CQS add-ins that shows how
much the software side of HA lags the hardware (IMO/E).

(Activehome.com and Smarthome.com are already registered domains, but
Anxious Home.com and Actively.com are wide open ... ;-)

>"Detecting Alarm Sounds" D.P. Ellis
>http://www.ee.columbia.edu/crac/papers/ellis.pdf


Here's a related resource with matlab code to process spectrum analyzer
output to identify distinctive sinusoidal (eg burglar alarm) waveforms.

http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/resources/matlab/

... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
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