Sound Classifier

R2026b

Classify sounds in audio signal

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Sound Classifier block

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Libraries:
Audio Toolbox / Deep Learning

Description

The Sound Classifier block uses YAMNet to classify audio segments into sound classes described by the AudioSet ontology. The Sound Classifier block combines necessary audio preprocessing and YAMNet network inference. The block returns predicted sound labels, predicted scores from the sounds, and class labels for predicted scores.

Examples

Detect Music in Simulink Using YAMNet

Detect music using the Sound Classifier block in Simulink^®.

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Compare Sound Classifier Block with Equivalent YAMNet Blocks

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Ports

Input

audioIn — Sound data

column vector

Sound data to classify, specified as a one-channel signal (column vector). If Sample rate of input signal (Hz) is 16e3, there are no restrictions on the input frame length. If Sample rate of input signal (Hz) is different from 16e3, then the input frame length must be a multiple of the decimation factor of the resampling operation that the block performs. If the input frame length does not satisfy this condition, the block throws an error message with information on the decimation factor.

Data Types: single | double

Output

sound — Predicted sound label

enumerated scalar

Predicted sound label, returned as an enumerated scalar.

Data Types: enumerated

scores — Predicted activations or scores

vector

Predicted activation or score values for each supported sound label, returned as a 1-by-521 vector, where 521 is the number of classes in YAMNet.

Data Types: single

labels — Class labels for predicted scores

vector

Class labels for predicted scores, returned as a 1-by-521 vector.

Data Types: enumerated

Parameters

Sample rate of input signal (Hz) — Sample rate of input signal in Hz

16e3 (default) | positive scalar

Specify the sample rate of the input signal as a positive scalar in Hz. If the sample rate is different from 16e3, then the block resamples the signal to 16e3, which is the sample rate that YAMNet supports.

Data Types: single | double

Overlap percentage (%) — Overlap percentage between consecutive mel spectrograms

50 (default) | [0 100)

Specify the overlap percentage between consecutive mel spectrograms as a scalar in the range [0 100).

Data Types: single | double

Classification — Select to output sound classification

on (default) | off

Enable the output port sound, which outputs the classified sound.

Predictions — Output all scores and associated labels

off (default) | on

Enable the output ports scores and labels, which output all predicted scores and associated class labels.

Block Characteristics

Data Types	double | single
Direct Feedthrough	no
Multidimensional Signals	no
Variable-Size Signals	no
Zero-Crossing Detection	no

Programmatic Use: Add Block

To add the block programmatically, use the add_block function with one of these library block paths as the source.

"audioai/Sound Classifier"

Example: add_block("audioai/Sound Classifier","myModel/myBlock",MakeNameUnique="on")

Algorithms

The Sound Classifier block algorithm consists of two steps:

1. Preprocessing –– YAMNet specific preprocessing. Generates mel spectrograms.

2. Prediction –– Predicting the sounds, scores, and labels of the input signal using the YAMNet sound classification network.

Preprocessing

1. Cast audioIn to single and resample to 16 kHz.

2. Compute the one-sided short-time Fourier transform (STFT) using a 25 ms periodic Hann window (400 samples) with a 10 ms hop (160 samples) and a 512-point DFT.

3. Convert the complex spectral values to magnitude and discard phase information.

4. Pass the one-sided magnitude STFTs through a 64-band mel-spaced filter bank. Doing so converts the 257-length STFT vectors to 64-length vectors in the mel scale.

5. Convert the 64-length vectors to a log scale.

6. Buffer the vectors into outputs of size 96-by-64, where 96 is the number of 10 ms frames in each mel spectrogram and 64 is the number of mel bands. The overlap between consecutive 96-by-64 mel spectrograms is determined by the value of the Overlap percentage (%) parameter.

Prediction

These 96-by-64 spectrograms are passed to the YAMNet block. The YAMNet block has a maximum of three outputs:

• sound: The label of the most likely sound. You get one "sound" for each 96-by-64 spectrogram input.

• scores: 1-by-512 vectors, with a score value for each supported sound label.

• labels: 1-by-521 vectors containing the sound labels.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation

Generate C and C++ code using Simulink® Coder™.

Usage notes and limitations:

• To generate generic C code that does not depend on third-party libraries, in the Configuration Parameters > Code Generation general category, set the Language parameter to C.

• To generate C++ code, in the Configuration Parameters > Code Generation general category, set the Language parameter to C++. To specify the target library for code generation, in the Code Generation > Interface category, set the Target Library parameter. Setting this parameter to None generates generic C++ code that does not depend on third-party libraries.

• For a list of networks and layers supported for code generation, see Networks and Layers Supported for Code Generation (MATLAB Coder).

Version History

Introduced in R2021b