Audio Analytic is a British company headquartered in

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that has developed a patented

sound recognition Sound recognition is a technology, which is based on both traditional pattern recognition theories and audio signal analysis methods. Sound recognition technologies contain preliminary data processing, feature extraction and classification algori ...

software framework called ai3 which provides technology with the ability to understand context through sound. This framework includes an embeddable software platform that can react to a range of sounds such as

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s and carbon monoxide alarms, window breakage,

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and dogs barking.

History

The company was based on founder Christopher Mitchell's doctoral research from

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, with seed investment from EEDA (

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) and local Cambridge Angels investors. In 2022 Audio Analytic was bought by Facebook and Instagram owner Meta.

Products

Audio Analytic sells ai3, a software package that is embedded on a device, along with an assortment of sound profiles that the software can recognise, including warning alarms, window breakage, an

, and voice activity. Audio Analytic developed the Polyphonic Sound Detection Score (PSDS), a

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for evaluating the performance of sound recognition algorithms when applied to polyphonic sound recordings. They also released an accompanying

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that implements the PSDS.

References

External links

Official website
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