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Automatic laughter detection
a system to automatically detect laughter from acoustic features of audio using neural networks.
By Mary Knox at Berkeley
https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/speech/laughter_v10.pdf
Laughter detection in meetings
A system to automatically detect laughter events.
By Lyndon S. Kennedy and Daniel P.W. Ellis at Columbia University and ICSI
http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~lyndon/pubs/nistrt2004-laughter.pdf
PR gnus of the world
World’s 3rd finest news source
By Mr. F. Le Mur
https://archive.org/details/PrGnusOfTheWorldNews1700To1799
The earliest episodes:
https://archive.org/details/PR_Gnus_Of_The_World_News_1001_to_1099
All search results: https://archive.org/search.php?query=PR%20gnus%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource_audio
Elevating Sound
Dramatic Shape
Writing pieces with convincing climaxes
from “GEMS”, 1993, by Matthew Fields
The Future of Music
By Jim Morrison, in 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHJ3jhg-pdg
Electricity from sound
Designed metasurface is a thin, near perfect acoustic absorber.
“…vibrations induced in the platelet-membrane system can be coupled to energy generation, with a sound-to-electrical conversion efficiency of 23%.”
at Neomatica
http://www.neomatica.com/2014/08/27/designed-metasurface-thin-near-perfect-acoustic-absorber/
Neural Nostalgia
Why do we love the music we heard as teenagers?
By Mark Joseph Stern at Slate