Hi there, Author of the paper here! We chose Surfboard because 1) it's a fun name and 2) surfers ride waves, and Surfboard works with WAVEforms. That's it really :D

It is a fun choice and hopefully it'll stick in people's minds! :)

It's hard to please everyone with the names. I surf, and I suppose that is why "surfboard" carries a stronger meaning for me. You took our word!! :)

Hi there, Author of the paper here. Thanks for your question. I have actually already addressed this question on our reddit post, please see it: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/gqvnpv/p_s...

Thanks, this helps!

> Surfboard actually builds on LibROSA for a few of its components (e.g. MFCCs) and its functionality (e.g. loading .wav files into memory). In that sense it is the same as LibROSA for a lot of their communal functionality.

> LibROSA was built to extract individual components for music analysis. The components we built into Surfboard are largely different to those in LibROSA (apart from a few). If you are interested, please read our paper and documentation to find out more!