Esben Rask

Audio & DSP

Esben writes about the signal-processing side of SoundSpotter: feature extraction, matching, and getting a clean build going on OSX, Windows and Linux. He has spent years around computer-music toolkits and live electronics.

Building SoundSpotter from source on OSX and Windows
Project Notes · October 8, 2013 · by Esben Rask
A short, practical walk-through for checking out the mp7c tree and building the SoundSpotter external for Max/MSP and PureData.
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What SoundSpotter actually does: matching, not synthesis
Audio Matching · February 14, 2012 · by Esben Rask
SoundSpotter does not generate new sound. It listens to a target and retrieves the closest-matching grains from a corpus, in real time. Here is why that distinction matters.
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Esben Rask

Building SoundSpotter from source on OSX and Windows

What SoundSpotter actually does: matching, not synthesis