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Max Sound Box
#1

Bonjour,

I am using ircamdescriptor to analyze sound files mostly for scientific purposes (I am doing a perception study and need to know the acoustical correlates). So far, the data is promising, but I have found no documentation about the different descriptors, their units, and a description of what they are actually measuring.

Is there any article/paper/manual that may describe these descriptors and that I can cite?

In particular, I would elated to have a thorough description of the tristimulus data, as they yield very interesting results.

Merci d’avance (J’écris en anglais car je crois que c’est la langue officielle du forum)
Blas Payri

#2

Hi Blas,

the reference article is: Geoffroy Peeters A large set of audio features for sound description (similarity and classification) in the CUIDADO project
Report 2004. http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/peeters/ARTICLES/Peeters_2003_cuidadoaudiofeatures.pdf

from http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-synthese/peeters/ARTICLES/

I’ll add the ref to the help patch, and maybe the pdf in the package.

Best.

#3

A list of most, if not all, descriptors developped in IrcamDescriptor~ can be found in Geoffroy Peeters’ Technical Report on “A Large set of Audio Features for Sound Description in the CUIDADO Project” which you can download using this link.