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I'm Jim David.

No wonder they call New York the city that never sleeps.

In fact, noise is one of the biggest civic complaints made by denizens of the Big Apple.

Now, a project that uses citizen science and artificial intelligence,

AI, is trying to help. Called Sounds of New York City, or Sonic, the effort combines a network

of sensors that constantly monitor ambient noise, along with machine learning and human

volunteers.

The Sonic project has two main goals. We want to advance the

science and engineering of machine listening, and we want to help monitor and mitigate

noise pollution in urban areas. Oded Nov, a professor of technology management and

innovation at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering. Over the past two years, our sensors

collected huge amounts of urban sound data, and we need volunteers to label these sounds.

That's where citizen science comes in. Sonic needs members of the public to listen to ambient

sounds picked up by noise monitors and label the sounds so the computers can learn to

independently recognize them. Labeling sound is harder than labeling images because sound is invisible

and ephemeral. But once people label sounds and enter them into a computer, the machines have an

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