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by billswift 5127 days ago
You might also note that they did not give any sort of false positive rate - they mentioned how often it correctly identified gunfire, but not how often other sounds were incorrectly labeled as gunfire. Since gunfire is uncommon, even with a fairly high accuracy rate, it is still likely to wrongly identify other sounds as gunfire more often than making accurate identifications.