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Similar Sound Search

Similar Sound Search allows you to search for sounds in your Media Pool databases using either a text query or a reference audio clip. This removes the need for keyword tagging and time-consuming manual navigation through vast sound libraries. It was designed specifically for sound effects and discovers unexpected matches that would be difficult to find using conventional search methods. For example, a sound labeled “smashing fruit” might be found as a match for the query “footsteps in mud.”

In particular, Similar Sound Search allows for:

  • Text-to-audio retrieval: In the list to the right of the Search field, select Audio Description and then type a description of the desired sound. Results are ranked based only on their audio content.

  • Audio-to-audio retrieval: Right-click any file in the Results pane and click Find Similar. The sonic qualities of the file are used as a reference to find similar results.

In both cases, Similar Sound Search provides a new way to find audio, even if it was recorded for a different purpose. These two techniques enrich traditional filtering, which depends on metadata, extending the possibilities of existing sound libraries.

Similar Sound Search uses a non-generative machine learning model to place audio and text into a shared search space where sounds are grouped by acoustic and semantic similarity. It is an optional package you can add to Wwise using the Audiokinetic Launcher.

For more information about how Audiokinetic uses this non-generative machine learning model, see Use of Artificial Intelligence.

Similar Sound Search is an option in the Packages menu when installing Wwise or modifying a Wwise installation. It is disabled by default.

To install Similar Sound Search:

  1. From the Audiokinetic Launcher Wwise page, do one of the following:

    • Select a version of Wwise to install and click Install.

    • From an installed version of Wwise, click Install options (wrench icon) and then select Modify.

  2. In the Packages list, select Similar Sound Search.

  3. Click Next.

  4. Click Install or Modify.

You can search and filter for similar files in the following two ways:

  • Audio Description: Ranks audio files in the Results pane using text-to-audio similarity. When you type a description of a sound, that description is compared directly to the audio content of all the files in the Results pane. This allows you to search for candidate sounds regardless of how they were labeled. For example, the description “footsteps in mud” might be highly similar to recordings labeled as “smashing fruit".

  • Audio Similarity: Ranks audio files in the Results pane using audio-to-audio similarity. The audio content of the reference sound is compared to all of the audio files in the Results pane.

In both cases, the results are reordered based on their similarity score. Search by Audio Description directly in the Search bar. Search for Audio Similarity in the waveform. Search by both Audio Description and Audio Similarity using filters.

  1. From the Selected Fields drop-down list, select Audio Description.

  2. Type in a phrase to describe the sound you are looking for. For example, "loud car crash".

    The search dynamically returns files that sound similar to the description as type, the the most similar being at the top of the Results pane.

To search by Audio Similarity in the waveform

  • Right-click the waveform of a file in the Results pane or in the Audio Preview/Region Selector and select Find Similar.

  • Right-click a region in waveform of the Audio Preview/Region Selector and select Find Similar (Region).

The results are reordered with the most similar to the waveform or region you selected at the top of the Results pane.

To search by creating filters for both Audio Similarity and Audio Description

You can create filters for both Audio Similarity and Audio Description. 더 많은 정보를 위해서는 “Filtering databases”를 참조하세요.


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