Re: a layman's reply speech/music

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Shouldn't the distiguishing of song from instrumental music involve
'looking' for the changing filtering characteristics brought on by vowel
transitions? Instruments (traditional acoustic instruments anyway)
don't have those kinds of fil;tering characteristics (except for trombone
w/ toilet plunger mute transitions, I imagine.)
Hopefully this isn't too irritating to you guys.

chris


> >         An interesting problem would be to try to automatically distinguish
> > song from instrumental music. But perhaps the "easier" problem of separating
> > music from unrelated speech should be tackled first (though not by me!).
> >
> > Bruno H. Repp
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