Subject: Re: Wanted: Environmental Sounds Recordings From: James Johnston <audioskeptic@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 02:01:51 -0800 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>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 @xxxxxxxx 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