The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications
I can confirm that in my current area of interest (how to synthesize a cello or saxophone sound), there are hundreds of academic papers published over decades, each of them says &quot;our method sounds more realistic than others&quot;, but code and audio samples are never available, and verbal descriptions always skip crucial details. I have no doubt that academics have a ton of expertise, but their output in paper form is basically unusable, I&#x27;m not sure it achieves any purpose besides resume padding. Reading a forum of synth hobbyists is a hundred times more useful.