Continuous Audio Life Logs and the Personal Audio Project

For under a hundred dollars you can buy a recording MP3 player, weighing ounces, that has the memory and battery life to record everything you hear throughout a 12 hour day. Upload these recordings to your computer every night and you have a complete personal audio life log. It's cheap and easy to collect this data, but it's almost impossible to use the recordings for anything without the development of new tools. This project is concerned with investigating the implications of ubiquitous personal audio recorders, and developing tools to exploit this kind of data.

Related Resources

• Our page on Portable Audio Recorders (part of the AUDITORY.ORG website).

Publications

D. Ellis and K.S. Lee (2004). Minimal-Impact Audio-Based Personal Archives

First ACM workshop on Continuous Archiving and Recording of Personal Experiences CARPE-04, New York, Oct 2004, pp. 39-47. (9pp)

D. Ellis and K.S. Lee (2004). Features for Segmenting and Classifying Long-Duration Recordings of Personal Audio

ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing SAPA-04, Jeju, Korea, Oct 2004, pp. 1-6. (6pp)

Support

This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-0238301. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Additional funding has been provided by Microsoft Research under the Digital Memories (Memex) program.

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Dan Ellis <dpwe@ee.columbia.edu>