AUDIO EVENTS TRIGGERING VIDEO ANALYTICS

A system, apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for using an audio trigger for surveillance in a security system. The method including receiving an audio input stream via a microphone. Dividing the audio input stream into audio segments. Filtering high energy audio segments from the audio segments. If a high energy audio segment includes speech, then determining if the speech is recognized as the speech of users of the system. If the high energy audio segment does not include the speech, then classifying the high energy audio segment as an interesting sound or an uninteresting sound. Determining whether to turn video on based on classification of the high energy audio segment as the interesting sound, speech recognition of the speech as the speech of the users of the system, and contextual data.