Subject: Re: a layman's reply speech/music From: RealTime <mandra(at)PEABODY.JHU.EDU> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:32:10 -0500Shouldn'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 > > Haskins Laboratories > > 270 Crown Street > > New Haven, CT 06511-6695 > > > > Phone: (203) 865-6163 (10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.) > > FAX: (203) 865-8963 > > e-mail: repp(at)haskins.yale edu > > WWW: http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Haskins/STAFF/repp.html > > >