13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising determining one or more salient portions of the input window of sound, wherein extracting one or more auditory attention features from the auditory spectrum includes extracting one or more auditory attention features from the one or more salient portions.
13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising determining one or more salient portions of the input window of sound, wherein extracting one or more auditory attention features from the auditory spectrum includes extracting one or more auditory attention features from the one or more salient portions. 14. The method of claim 13 , wherein extracting one or more auditory attention features from the one or more salient portions includes ignoring remaining portions of the input window of sound.