| ADC | Analog to Digital Converter |
| AED | Acoustic Event Detection |
| ARM | Advanced RISC Machine |
| ANE | Anomalous Noise Event |
| ANED | Anomalous Noise Event Detection |
| CNOSSOS | Common Noise Assessment Methods |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| DCT | Discrete Cosine Transform |
| DFT | Discrete Fourier Transform |
| DYNAMAP | DYNamic Acoustic MAPping |
| EC | European Commission |
| END | Environmental Noise Directive |
| EU | European Union |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| FPGA | Field-Programmable Gate Array |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| HMM | Hidden Markov Models |
| IIR | Infinite Impulse Response |
| LDD | Low Level Descriptors |
| MFCC | Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients |
| MFS | Mel Frequency Subband |
| MSPS | Mega Samples per Second |
| OCC | One-Class Classifier |
| PWP | Perceptual Wavelet Packets |
| RTN | Road Traffic Noise |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| UGMM | Universal GMM |
| WASN | Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network |
| ZCR | Zero Crossing Rate |