I’ll be co-presenting the first tutorial session at the Audio Engineering Society 53rd Conference on Semantic Audio, this weekend.
(It’s the society’s 53rd Conference, and it happens to be about semantic audio. It’s not their 53rd conference about semantic audio. In fact it’s their second: that was also the theme of the AES 42nd Conference in 2011.
What is semantic audio? Good question, glad you asked. I believe it refers to extraction or estimation of any semantic material from audio, including speech recognition and music information retrieval.)
My tutorial, for the SoundSoftware project, is about developing better and more reliable software during research work. That’s a very deep subject, so at best we’ll barely hint at a few techniques during one programming exercise:
- making readable experimental code using the IPython Notebook, and sharing code for review with colleagues and supervisors;
- using version control software to manage revisions and escape disaster;
- modularising and testing any code that can be used in more than one experiment;
- packaging, publishing, and licensing code;
- and the motivations for doing the above.
We presented a session at the Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) conference in 2012 which covered much of this material in presentation style, and a tutorial at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) in 2012 which featured a “live” example of test-driven development in research software. You can find videos and slides from those tutorials here. The theme of this one is similar, and I’ll be reusing some code from the ISMIR tutorial, but I hope we can make this one a bit more hands-on.
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