Root cause of poor discrimination: MFCC[0] (energy) dominated the
feature vector, making cosine similarity see all audio as similar.
Changes:
- Skip MFCC[0], use 12 coefficients instead of 20
- Add delta MFCCs for temporal dynamics
- Add 7-band spectral contrast for tonal vs noise quality
- Switch from cosine similarity to euclidean-distance-based score
- Pre-compute STFT once for whole file (10-20x faster)
- Vectorized sliding window via cumulative sums (no Python loop)
- Lower sample rate 22050→16000 Hz (faster, no quality loss)
- 62-dim feature vector (was 40-dim mean+std of raw MFCCs)
- Default threshold 0.05 (new similarity scale)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ethanfel
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