🎓 Feature Extraction
MFCC
Concept: Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients. Mimics human perception.
Advantages: Effective for speech, compact representation.
Applications: Speech recognition, speaker identification.
Spectrogram
Concept: Time-frequency representation. STFT (Short-Time Fourier Transform).
Advantages: Visual, well-suited for CNNs.
Applications: Audio classification, music analysis.
Chroma Features
Concept: Musical notes (12 semitones).
Applications: Music analysis, chord detection.
🔧 Audio Processing Tasks
Speech Recognition
Task: Converting speech to text (ASR).
Models: Wav2Vec, Whisper, DeepSpeech, Transformer-based.
Applications: Voice assistants, transcription.
Audio Classification
Task: Classifying audio (genres, sounds, languages).
Models: CNNs on spectrograms, Transformer-based.
Applications: Music genre, sound event detection.
Speaker Recognition
Task: Recognizing the speaker (identification, verification).
Models: Deep learning for embeddings.
Applications: Security, authentication.
📚 Practical Examples
Example 1: Speech Recognition with Whisper
Preparation: Prepare audio files.
Whisper: Utilize the pre-trained Whisper model.
Transcription: Obtain text from speech.
Evaluation: Verify WER on a test set.
Example 2: Audio Classification with CNN
Features: Create spectrograms from audio.
CNN: Train a CNN on spectrograms.
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Audio Processing: processing of audio signals
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