SoDA: A Sound Design Accelerator for the automatic generation of soundscapes from an ontologically annotated sound library

Abstract

In this paper we describe the SoDA project, that aims at automatically generating soundscapes from a database of annotated sound files. The rationale of the project lies in the ubiquitous requirement for sound designer to produce backgrounds that include specific multi-layered sound materials. SoDA provides an ontologically-annotated database that allows the sound designer to describe the desired soundscape by keywords: by referring to the database, the system then delivers a resulting audiofile.