PR&D - Public Relations for Research & Development - "Wanted - spaceship engine noise" Intelligent complete database developed

St. Poelten, AUSTRIA 26 May 2008 – From 30 May 2008, media producers will be able to acceptance an able and easy-to-use new technology that will advice them clue down the complete accoutrement they need. After two and a bisected years of development work, the AllThatSounds (ATS) able database for sounds and noises is traveling online at allthatsounds.net . The database has been advised and developed by a analysis aggregation at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences with abutment from the FHplus programme run by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).



The aim of the AllThatSounds analysis activity was to accomplish it easier for media companies to clue down the sounds they need. Currently, accepted complete libraries alone acquiesce users to seek for complete accoutrement by entering a simple description of how the adapted complete is produced, for archetype “shutting the aperture of an X casting car”. The analysis aggregation at St. Poelten University developed an able adjustment of categorisation that ensures complete accoutrement are accurately declared if entered in the database. However, users can aswell ascertain sounds in a array of altered ways, for archetype according to their impact. This “associative semantic indexing” of audio abstracts is an absolutely new development and aswell allows users to seek by advised use.

AN INTELLIGENT DATABASE THAT THINKS OUTSIDE THE BOX.

ATS technology offers above advantages for the action of complete design, whereby noises are generally replicated application added agency – as is the case with the all-over barrage board. Professor Hannes Raffaseder, Head of the Institute for Media Production at St. Poelten University and Project Manager for ATS explains: “Besides its adult arrangement of categorisation, AllThatSounds aswell automatically searches the database for agnate complete accoutrement and samples, behindhand of whether or not they accept been declared with the accordant key words. In an action movie, for example, the complete of aqueous metal was replicated with a aggregate of baking fat and bubbles yoghurt. The ATS database would automatically advance this blazon of solution. The aforementioned applies to the assembly of artificial sound, such as the babble fabricated by the drive arrangement of a spaceship. If a complete artist wants to abject the complete aftereffect on the active of a backyard mower, ATS aswell suggests added noises that are agnate to that of a mower. As a result, the complete artist will be able to accomplish absolutely the aftereffect he wants abundant faster”. The technology is based on circuitous arresting approach algorithms accepted as mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), which analyze agnate aural noises by analysing and allocation all the sounds in the database in the background.



AllThatSounds is aimed at all media creatives who plan on computer games, advertisements, films, radio programmes, etc. The aboriginal adaptation of ATS already offers over 2,500 sounds for download, and users can accomplish searches in English or German. Professor Raffaseder on the new database: “We would like to allure all complete designers, composers and complete artists to upload their sounds assimilate AllThatSounds and ascertain the noises that are already online in agreement of their aftereffect and function. The database has been advised to become added able and adult as it is acclimated more.”


TECHNOLOGY WITH MARKET POTENTIAL

The analysis aggregation at St. Pölten University is already alive on a stand-alone adaptation of ATS that will acquiesce ample assembly companies to use the categorisation and affinity appraisal technology for their absolute complete libraries.


ABOUT ALLTHATSOUNDS

AllThatSounds was developed at St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences in abutting cooperation with Vienna-based aggregation Audite, which specialises in the architecture and accomplishing of audio articles and systems, and with abutment from the FHplus programme run by the FFG. Communications aggregation Team Teichenberg and Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences aswell contributed to the project.

Professor Hannes Raffaseder
Institute for Media Production, St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences
Matthias Corvinus-Strasse 15, A-3100 St. Poelten, Austria
Phone: +43 (0)2743 / 313 228 – 616
E-Mail: hannes.raffaseder@fhstp.ac.at


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Petra Andrea Rotheneder
Phone: +43 / 1 / 505 70 44
E-Mail: rotheneder@prd.at

St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria, was founded in 1996 and currently offers 11 altered courses at its new campus at 15 Matthias Corvinus-Strasse. At present, 1,400 acceptance are enrolled at the university, which offers amount courses in the three capital areas of bloom and amusing sciences, business and technology. All the courses are based on the Bologna bachelor’s/master’s model. Practical analysis is aswell a key across of action at St. Poelten University.