Re: speech/music - thanks

[Al Bregman <bregman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Sue Johnson wrote:

> Has anyone any ideas on how you might be able to recognise the presence of
> speech when music is also present. Does it have any special
> pyscho-acoustic properties, or does the music drown them out?
>
> Sue Johnson
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Hi Sue,

Have you spoken to either Martin Cooke or Guy Brown at the Department of
Computer Science, University of Sheffield, or Dan Ellis at Berkeley?

    Martin Cooke <m.cooke@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk>
    Guy Brown <guy@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
    Dan Ellis <dpwe@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>


They have been experimenting on the use of general-purpose methods of
auditory scene analysis to segregate sounds (including voices) from other
sounds.  Guy is now involved in some work on music as well.

You might also want to look at these web pages:

 http://sound.media.mit.edu/~dfr/CASA.html
 http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/labs/auditory/laboratory.html
 http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~dpwe/
 http://www.hip.atr..co.jp/departments/Dept1/progress95/node1.html
 http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/spandh/projects/projects.html

Al Bregman

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