eddielu/soundsofsummer

Hacking radio stations

Secret Sounds of Summer

This project was inspired by the popular "secret sound" radio contest. Stations would play a sound clip (usually ~5 sec) and contestants would dial into guess what the sound was. Sometimes, it could take more than ten guesses before any contestent got the right answer. I decided to create a generic sound recognizer algorithm as a hack for the secret sound contest. Such an algorithm, however, has potential beyond radio show contests (lol), and can hopefully be used to build smarter sensors and better AI.

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This project consists of two pieces: a scraper to pull audio files from the web, and a recognizer that is trained by these audio clips and attempts to recognize other sounds. For more information on the scraper, please visit the folder:

scraper

For more information on the recognizer, please visit the folder:

recognizer