By now, you should understand the basic task of classification or categorization, where we have structured or unstructured data that is usually labeled or annotated with specific groups or categories. The main task in automated classification is to build a model such that, with future data points, we can classify each data point or record into one of the specific categories based on various data attributes or features.
We have already looked at text and image classification in the previous chapters. In this chapter, we will look at classifying audio events. An audio event is basically an event or occurrence of an activity that is usually captured by an audio signal. Usually, short audio clips are used to represent audio events since, even if they are recurring, the sounds are usually similar. Sometimes, though, longer audio clips might...
