Systems for and methods of intelligent acoustic monitoring

1. A system for intelligent acoustic monitoring, the system comprising:

a microphone configured to capture environmental acoustic data; and

a processor coupled to the microphone and configured to:

receive the environmental acoustic data from the microphone;

perform an acoustic analysis on the environmental acoustic data to generate an acoustic signature;

identify, based on a result of the acoustic analysis, an event indicated by the acoustic signature;

perform a remedial action based on the event, wherein the remedial action comprises playback of a responsive audio file;

play a first audio file in an audio playlist for a predetermined time period;

continue to receive the environmental acoustic data and determine whether the event persists;

based on the event persisting, continue to play the first audio file or begin to play a next audio file in the audio playlist; and

based on the event subsiding, reduce a volume of an audio playback.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a computing device, wherein the computing device comprises the processor and the microphone.

3. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a computing device, wherein the computing device comprises the processor and is remote from the microphone, and wherein the computing device is configured to receive the environmental acoustic data over a wired network or a wireless network.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to populate a database with acoustic signatures and an associated event for each acoustic signature.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

generate a prompt for user input to identify an event associated with the acoustic signature generated based on the environmental acoustic data; and

receive a user input that identifies the event associated with the acoustic signature, thereby associating the event with the acoustic signature.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the processor is configured to:

access an audio file over a network of a known event;

perform acoustic analysis on acoustic data of the audio file to generate an acoustic signature for the audio file; and

associate the acoustic signature for the audio file with the known event.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the microphone comprises a specialized transducer configured to monitor a vital sign of a living being.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

initialize an ordering of audio files in an audio playlist based on user-defined cultural, geographic, socioeconomic, or geopolitical preferences; and

periodically update the ordering and a content of the audio playlist based on an effectiveness of the audio files of the audio playlist.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the remedial action further comprises generating a communication to a user device, wherein the communication may be one of a text message, an electronic mail message, a voice message, or a telephone call, and wherein the user device may comprise a mobile phone.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the event further comprises an interpersonal interaction, and wherein the remedial action further comprises providing a psychological analysis of the interpersonal interaction.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the event further comprises a security event, and wherein the remedial action further comprises generating an alert or an alarm to an authority.

12. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a distributed microphone network comprising a plurality of microphones.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive captured acoustic data from at least some microphones of the distributed microphone network; and

triangulate an event based on acoustic signatures generated from the captured acoustic data.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive environmental acoustic data from a microphone;

perform an acoustic analysis on the environmental acoustic data to generate an acoustic signature;

identify, based on a result of the acoustic analysis, an event indicated by the acoustic signature;

perform a remedial action based on the event, wherein the remedial action comprises playback of a responsive audio file;

play a first audio file in an audio playlist for a predetermined time period;

continue to receive the environmental acoustic data and determine whether the event persists;

based on the event persisting, continue to play the first audio file or begin to play a next audio file in the audio playlist; and

based on the event subsiding, reduce a volume of an audio playback.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the event comprises a condition of a living being.