Welcome to the Audio Understanding (Spring 2025)
“Machine listening” is a multidisciplinary field at the intersection of signal processing, machine learning, and psychoacoustics. This course will begin by introducing necessary material from those fields to provide a foundation for the rest of the course. Machine listening is primarily concerned with analyzing and understanding three types of signals: speech, music, and environmental sounds and these will be the focus of the course. We will also consider additional applications that require the creation or manipulation of these sounds in speech and music.