Subject: Re: separating voices and music in movie scenes From: Christian Kaernbach <auditorymail@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:04:49 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear Pawel and Eero, Thank you very much for your responses. The "physical" approach (remixing of channels) is one that I did not consider up to now, and which might with some movies really help. We will probably use only very recent movies, as we have found that the degree of familiarity is important for the elicitation of strong emotion. (Believe it or not: many students would not know Casablanca.) The movies would be in Dolby. What I really thought was that by now auditory scene analysis (ASA) would be advanced far enough to solve this problem. It is simpler than segregating the voice from songs, because it would normally deal with spoken speech (as opposed to sung speech) that is overlayed with instrumental music. I have listened years ago to some demonstration of somebody who presented the result of a computational ASA approach, and it was (as a demo) quite convincing. Unluckily I don't remember the details, nor the name. I have no idea whether such algorithms are by now mature enough to solve such a task. Best, Christian Kaernbach