Managing Silence In Audio Signal Identification

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving a sample of an audio signal;
• identifying one or more audio characteristics of the sample;
• determining that at least one portion of the sample includes an audio characteristic that does not meet a threshold audio characteristic level;
• identifying the at least one portion of the sample as including silence based on the determining;
• generating a modified sample by replacing the at least one portion of the sample including silence with additive audio;
• generating a test audio fingerprint based on the modified sample including additive audio;
• and
• retrieving identifying information associated with a reference audio fingerprint based on a comparison between the test audio fingerprint and the reference audio fingerprint.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving an audio signal;
• identifying a portion of the audio signal having one or more audio characteristics less than a threshold;
• determining that the portion of the audio signal includes silence based on the identifying;
• generating a test audio fingerprint using the audio signal, where generation of the test audio fingerprint is based at least in part on the determination that the portion of the audio signal includes silence;
• and
• comparing the test audio fingerprint to one or more reference audio fingerprints.