Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học Journal of Biology đề tài: Research Article Development of the Database for Environmental Sound Research and Application | Hindawi Publishing Corporation EURASIP Journal on Audio Speech and Music Processing Volume 2010 Article ID 654914 12 pages doi 2010 654914 Research Article Development of the Database for Environmental Sound Research and Application DESRA Design Functionality and Retrieval Considerations Brian Gygi1 and Valeriy Shafiro2 1 Speech and Hearing Research Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System Martinez CA 94553 USA 2 Communications Disorders and Sciences Rush University Medical Center 600 S. Paulina Street Chicago IL 60612 USA Correspondence should be addressed to Brian Gygi bgygi@ Received 16 January 2010 Accepted 17 May 2010 Academic Editor Harvey Thornburg Copyright 2010 B. Gygi and V. Shafiro. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Theoretical and applied environmental sounds research is gaining prominence but progress has been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive high quality accessible database of environmental sounds. An ongoing project to develop such a resource is described which is based upon experimental evidence as to the way we listen to sounds in the world. The database will include a large number of sounds produced by different sound sources with a thorough background for each sound file including experimentally obtained perceptual data. In this way DESRA can contain a wide variety of acoustic contextual semantic and behavioral information related to an individual sound. It will be accessible on the Internet and will be useful to researchers engineers sound designers and musicians. 1. Introduction Environmental sounds are gaining prominence in theoretical and applied research that crosses boundaries of different fields. As a class of sounds environmental sounds are worth studying because of their ability to convey semantic information based on complex
