Noise Eater

Webapp which implements various noise detection alrorithms developed by the University of Salford's Good Recording project.

Prerequisites

• windDet to do the actual processing
• audiowaveform to generate peak data
• ffmpeg for audio file conversion and slicing
• sendmail or other mailserver to send validation emails

Install & Configure

• Make sure binaries above are available
• Copy configuration/settings.rb.example to configuration/settings.rb and set as appropriate.
• bundle --without production
• rackup

In the console output, server messages are in green, command line tools in yellow, user interaction in blue and errors in red.

What's what?

• /features/: cucumber specs
• /public/audio: upload location for audio files
• /testdata/: files to test with
• /trees/: descision trees for windDet
• config.rb: website config
• config.ru: rackup config
• NoiseEater.rb: website app
• fileprocessor.rb: audio file processing server
• resetdb.rb: wipe the database and files

Credits

Developed by the University of Salford Acoustics Research Centre.

• Webapp by Dr. Kim Foale
• Noise detectors by Dr. Paul Kendrick
• Project Manager Prof. Trevor Cox