Re: Wanted: Environmental Sounds Recordings

[James Johnston <audioskeptic@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's no "home" or "city' catagories?


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Mathieu Lagrange
<Mathieu.Lagrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> we are currently collecting recordings of environmental sound events to
> artificially generate synthetic environmental scenes.
>
> Those scenes will serve as open evaluation data within the IEEE AASP
> Challenge on Detection and
> Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events,
>
> If you are keen on recording sounds of your environment, please contribute
> to this research effort !!
>
> To see what kind of sounds we are looking for, and contribute if you can,
> please visit the following web page:
> http://soundthings.org/challenge-contrib/
>
> All the submitted data will be held during the evaluation stage of the
> challenge and then released on Freesound under the "creative commons"
> licence (unless you explicitly ask us not to).
>
> IMPORTANT: Our target here is diversity. So please do not restrain yourself
> with respect to sound quality, hardware, and encoding formats. Obviously,
> good sound quality is a plus, but everything is welcome !!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mathieu Lagrange
> CNRS Researcher (anasyn team @ Ircam)
> mathieu.lagrange@xxxxxxxx
> Phone: ++33-1-4478 4871 | Fax: ++33-1-4478 1540
>
> More informations:
>  - IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes
> and Events: http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/sceneseventschallenge/
>  - Freesound: http://freesound.org/



-- 
James D. (jj) Johnston
Independent Audio and Electroacoustics Consultant