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Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard 26/01/2006, 10:52
Summarizing other research, states that "one of the main problems faced by natural sounds and sound effects classifiers is the lack of a clear taxonomy." For musical instruments "there is a parallelism between semantic and perceptual taxonomies" that does not exist for "every-day sound classification".
e.g. musical instruments are sustained, not sustained, string, brass etc. However, "one can find hissing sounds in categories of "cat", "tea boilers', "snakes." Foley artists exploit this ambiguity" by the use of sounds unconnected with a visual object.
