Artist machine-learning

The aim of inducing such rules is to allow the user to explore further alternatives when designing particular sounds. The user could ask Artist, for example, to play something that sounds similar to an open vowel. In this case Artist would infer from the above rule which attributes are imperative to synthesise this type of sound. Before we present an example operation and study Artist s machine-learning module, let us examine how the system supports high-level symbolic sound description. 

Appendix 3 Artist s Inductive Machine Learning Algorithm... 

The purpose of ML in Artist is to induce general concept descriptions of sounds from a set of examples. The ML technique selected for our investigation is therefore the inductive learning technique (IML). The benefit of being able to induce general concept descriptions of sounds is that the machine can automatically use induced concept descriptions to identify unknown sounds and to suggest missing attributes of an incomplete sound description. 

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