Unless you’re browsing videos of someone falling off a cliff, the screams of OH MY GOD OH MY GOD YAAAAAAAAA are porno sounds, through and through. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have a fresh new algorithm to isolate porno yelps, which they figured out are higher pitched and more repetitive than anything else – think about it. It’s accurate 94 per cent of the time – although it does get snagged on ecstatic audience applause from time to time (if you watched Oprah and closed your eyes, you’d probably think you were listening to an orgy scene).
Still. Keep this thing away from my computer. [New Scientist]
Blake
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 2:21 PMDoes this mean it would prevent When Harry met Sally from showing?
Because if so, sign me up.
jasonalex
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 3:45 PMwhat if you were trying to watch the tennis on you computer?
Chumly
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 1:09 PMI can see this blocking every Asian horror movie ever made.
Whenever the girlfriend’s watching one of those I keep checking the screen sure that someone’s in the throes of passion. It’s always just another insecure girl who can’t operate a light switch.