Classification of Voice Content in the Context of Public Radio Broadcasting

With the rapid development of mass media technology, content classification of radio broadcasting has emerged as a major research area facilitating the automation of radio broadcasting monitoring process. This research focuses on the voice dominant content classification of radio broadcasting by employing a multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM) in order to automate monitoring of radio broadcasting in Sri Lanka. This study investigates the performance of “One Vs. One” and “One Vs. All” methods known to be two conventional ways to build a multi-class SVM. These two multi-class SVM models are trained to classify five voice dominant classes as news, conversations, and advertisements without jingles, radio drama and religious programs.