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From: moreno@info.polymtl.ca (Carlos Moreno)
Subject: Re: Sound Recognition
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Cristophe Couvreur (couvreur@uicsltg.csl.uiuc.edu) wrote:

: Hi:

: I am doing my thesis on environmental sound recognition. I would like
: to know if there exists some database with environmental sounds
: data. 

: Such database exists for speech data or sonar data, but I have not
: been able to find anything on environmental sounds (trains, cars,
: planes, dog barking...). I would like to find something like the BBC
: sound effect library with more than a few sample of each sounds.

: Thanks in advance,

: Christophe Couvreur
: couvreur@what.csl.uiuc.edu

Woulldn't a CD with that kind of sounds do the job? (there are thousands 
of them available wherever...)

If you need the sounds iin a computer, well, sample them, or just read them
with a CD-ROM...

Hope this helps,

Carlos

