Philips Research — Technologies

Easy Access to NICE music

(Previous HomeLab project)

Voice control, speaker identification, query by humming, hand writing recognition, automatic collaborative filtering and non-speech audio are all new interaction technologies. The Easy Access project integrates these to support users in accessing large audio, video or multimedia databases.

 

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Dr Steffen C. Pauws MTD, Senior Scientist:

"Music where are you?"
"Hi, Steffen."
"Melody."
"Melody."
"Fafafa, fafafa, fafafaaaafa, fafafafafafafa."
"Play."
"It does speaker identification, so it knows who's speaking to it. There is voice-control, so there is speech recognition in it. It provides recommendations to you, so there is a collaborative filtering technique implemented. You can sing to it, so it has a melody recognition engine inside of it. And there is also some speech synthesis for the voice-over."
"Play ‘Plenty’."
"Bye... Bye... Bye..."