Same here, what I want to do is detect my dog barking excessively at people/cats/birds on the street and trigger my curtains to close for a few minutes... I've already got a wired camera in there so processing the audio seems easiest technically, but I can't help but think it's a really crazy waste of CPU time (even though it will be good for my neighbours).
I'd wondered if computing peak volumes per second would be a good enough proxy, then trigger action if the threshold is exceeded more than n times in 15 seconds... certainly seems like it should be way less compute intensive!
I'd wondered if computing peak volumes per second would be a good enough proxy, then trigger action if the threshold is exceeded more than n times in 15 seconds... certainly seems like it should be way less compute intensive!