We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2017
Part V Dedication: Max Mathews
This part is dedicated to the memory of Max Vernon Mathews (1926–2011), the father of computer music. Max had a decades-long focus on applications of computers to hearing and to music analysis, synthesis, and performance. His work on computer speech, music, and hearing started in the late 1950s at Bell Labs (Mathews, 1959, 1961, 1963). I had the opportunity to know Max at Stanford's CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) where he worked for many years. When I taught my Human and Machine Hearing course at Stanford in 2010 (Psych 303, in affiliation with the Mind, Brain, and Computation center), Max came and audited the class once a week, climbing the stairs to the third floor with his hiking sticks. He invited me to his lab and explained the “coupled-form” filter that he was using for music synthesis; I subsequently adopted it as the basis for the digital implementation of my various cochlear filter models, so it figures prominently in earlier parts of the book.
In this part, we discuss the top two layers of our simple framework for machine hearing systems: types of systems that can be trained to address machine hearing applications, and ways that features can be extracted into a form suitable to be presented as inputs to such systems. We discuss several example applications, including ones on which we have published studies, and a survey of some others.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
