Extending Radio Broadcasting Semantics through Adaptive Audio Segmentation Automations

Abstract

The present paper focuses on adaptive audio detection, segmentation and classification techniques in audio broadcasting content, dedicated mainly to voice data. The suggested framework addresses a real case scenario encountered in media services and especially radio streams, aiming to fulfill diverse (semi-) automated indexing/annotation and management necessities. In this context, aggregated radio content is collected, featuring small input datasets, which are utilized for adaptive classification experiments, without searching, at this point, for a generic pattern recognition solution. Hierarchical and hybrid taxonomies are proposed, firstly to discriminate voice data in radio streams and thereafter to detect single speaker voices, and when this is the case, the experiments proceed into a final layer of gender classification. It is worth mentioning that stand-alone and combined supervised and clustering techniques are tested along with multivariate window tuning, towards the extraction of meaningful results based on overall and partial performance rates. Furthermore, the current work via data augmentation mechanisms contributes to the formulation of a dynamic Generic Audio Classification Repository to be subjected, in the future, to adaptive multilabel experimentation with more sophisticated techniques, such as deep architectures.