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Background of our project

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We could find a considerable amount of research work with regard to our project idea “ A system for Automatic Audio Replacement of Objectionable Content for Sri Lankan Locale ”.Most of the researches were based on English.  These are the brief summaries about the most related research work- 01) Automatic Replacement of Objectionable Audio Content from Audio Signals, A. Stuart, R. Sahasrabudhe and S. Kendal. (2009, February 26). Patent US 20090055189A1 [Online]. Available: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/43/46/1a/0a948544e9c839/US20090055189 A1.pdf This research paper is very much similar to our proposed project but it is a hardware solution specifically for the English language. This will first filter objectionable content from a real-time audio signal, identifies the type of objectionable content and replaces them with an audio clip corresponding to the replacement setting.  02)Filtering some Portions of a Multimedia Stream, P. Nair.

The proposed method and technology

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We are proposing a method that can easily find and replace the objectionable content in an audio file using an artificial intelligence model. This method will be useful for the media editors, since they can easily find and replace the objectionable content in the audio file with one click. He can input the audio file and select the objectionable content type. After that our system will automatically find and replace the objectionable content with the predefined words or phrases. The replaced words are intended to match with the voice and the modulation of the original input.  When the program starts to run, the user will have the ability to input an audio file(wav or mp3) to be analyzed. Thereafter the audio clip will be analyzed and filtered out the noise using several filters (eg: Low pass, High Pass, etc.). Following that, the user can choose what specific objectionable audio content should be identified and replaced. The program will provide four options namely, Va

Analyzes of the survey conducted with regard to our project

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We thought of conducting a survey, in order to gather some information for our research based project. For that we prepared three forms in Sinhala, Tamil and English languages, since they are the most widely used languages in Sri Lanka. We started distributing our forms through social media on 7th July, 2019 and our expectation is to get 500 responses. At the moment, we have succeeded in getting around 350 responses from all the 3 surveys. Here we have asked 8 questions, which are related to our research. Our 1st question is aimed to know the background of the person who fills the form. In order to get the details, we have given some options like undergraduate, graduate, academic  and other Professional. According to the responses we got from all three languages, the most who filled the form are "undergraduates". Our 2nd question is to know the gender. None had not mentioned that they dislike to state their gender. But we gave such an option in