PPT Slide
Actions and Events as Descriptors
- Dog barking, Tires screeching, Gun shot
- Benefits
- Can be assigned even when source identification is impossible
- Language everybody knows (scraping, falling, pounding, screaming, sliding, rolling, coughing, clicking)
- Drawbacks
- Difficult or impossible for some sounds
- Many unrelated sounds can have the same attributes
- Subjective (one persons “gust” is another’s “blow”)
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