Patent ID: 7333864

Claim:
A physical computer-readable medium having computer executable instructions encoded thereon for identifying audio objects within an audio stream, comprising: capturing an audio stream; computing at least one parameter for characterizing at least one portion of the audio stream; identifying potentially matching identified audio objects for each portion of the audio stream by comparing the at least one parameter for each portion of the audio stream to known parameters in at least one database of identified audio objects; comparing at least one of the potentially matching identified audio objects to the at least one portion of the audio stream to determine whether the at least one portion of the audio stream matches one of the potentially matching identified audio objects; when one of the potentially matching identified audio objects is determined to a match to the at least one portion of the audio stream, identifying an audio object within the audio stream by assigning the identity of the matching identified audio object to the at least one portion of the audio stream; and determining extents of the audio object identified in the audio stream, and wherein determining extents of the audio object identified includes determining endpoints for the audio object.