5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the auditory spectrum in a) involves passing the input window of sound through a cochlear filtering stage, inner hair cell stage, and lateral inhibitory stage that mimic transmission between the basilar membrane and the cochlear nucleus of an auditory system.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the auditory spectrum in a) involves passing the input window of sound through a cochlear filtering stage, inner hair cell stage, and lateral inhibitory stage that mimic transmission between the basilar membrane and the cochlear nucleus of an auditory system. 6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the cochlear filtering stage is implemented using a bank of 128 overlapping constant-Q asymmetric band-pass filters.