Abstract:
An apparatus and method for generating a two-dimensional on-screen user interface for a display of a sequence of media selectable by a user. The on-screen user interlace contains a large collection of music which allows a user to selectively choose a desired media content by pointing to a specified location on the display.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a portable audio playback device (100) which comprise means for storage (101) of at least one spoken word audio book, and means for storage (101) of at least one music audio items. The device further comprise associated user interlace means (108) for enabling user selection of a spoken word audio book and user selective assembly of a music play list including at least one of said music audio items, and means for simultaneous playback (110) of said user selected spoken word audio book and said at least one music audio item of said user assembled music play list.
Abstract:
A digital audio player, including a casing, a memory within said casing for storing digital audio including songs and a commercial, a digital to-analog converter within said casing and operatively connected to said memory for converting digital audio to analog audio, an analog audio player within said casing and operatively coupled to said digital-to-analog converter, for playing the songs in response to manual user commands, and for automatically playing the commercial, and a processor for stopping the automatic playing of the commercial after a specific event has occurred. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a portable audio playback device (100) which comprise means for storage (101) of at least one spoken word audio book, and means for storage (101) of at least one music audio items. The device further comprise associated user interlace means (108) for enabling user selection of a spoken word audio book and user selective assembly of a music play list including at least one of said music audio items, and means for simultaneous playback (110) of said user selected spoken word audio book and said at least one music audio item of said user assembled music play list.
Abstract:
An embodiment is related to automatic summarization for digital audio raw data (12), more specifically, for identifying pure music and vocal music (40,60) from digital audio data by extracting distinctive features from music frames (73,74,75,76), designing a classifier and determining the classification parameters (20) using adaptive learning/training algorithm (36), and identifying music into pure music or vocal music according to the classifier. For pure music, temporal, spectral and cepstral features are calculated to characterise the musical content, and an adaptive clustering method is used to structure the musical content according to calculated features. The summary (22,24,26,48,52,70,72) is created according to clustered result and domain-based music knowledge (50,150). For vocal music, voice related features are extracted and used to structure the musical content, and similarly, the music summary is created in terms of structured content and heuristic rules related to music genres.
Abstract:
A platform for accessing and interacting with information according to users' individual interests (108) over a cellular network (101) in an audio format while using an improved speech interface (102) with natural understanding capabilities (104), employing a variety of software applications (106).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a system for browsing a collection of information units, such as audio or video files, comprising presentation means for presenting an information unit from said collection, and attribute means for associating a respective information unit with an attribute value for at least a first attribute. The system according to the invention randomly selects information units which meet certain criteria for said first attribute.
Abstract:
An apparatus is configured to cause a display to present a graphical user interface having two or more regions that correspond to respective media content characteristics and to receive indication from an input arrangement of received input manipulating an attribute of at least one region of the two or more of the regions and determining a dominance of at least one of said respective characteristics based, at least in part, on said attribute. The apparatus is configured to output information identifying media content in which said at least one characteristic has a dominance within a respective range of dominance values, said range being based, at least in part, on the determined dominance. The dominance values may include an overall value for the media content and/or varying dominance values based on temporal segments of the media content. The media content may include audio, image, video or text data. Example characteristics include contributing musical instruments, genre and subject matter.