News tagged with audio
Jawbone releases 'Big' speakers for smartphones
Jawbone began rolling out an even louder version of its portable wireless speakers, which have caught fire among smartphone and tablet users.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 01, 2012 |
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'Talking dictionaries' document vanishing languages
Digital technology is coming to the rescue of some of the world's most endangered languages. Linguists from National Geographic's Enduring Voices project who are racing to document and revitalize struggling languages are ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Mogees project delivers haptic symphony (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Creative sound-making is as fluid and changing as it implies, incorporating everything from troupes that bang on every hard surface imaginable to creators of electronic music, to musicians ...
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Playback: 130-year-old sounds revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early 1880s, three inventors—Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, collectively making up the Volta Laboratory Associates—brought together their ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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New software tool provides unprecedented searches of sound, from musical riffs to gunshots
Audio engineers have developed a novel artificial intelligence system for understanding and indexing sound, a unique tool for both finding and matching previously un-labeled audio files.
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Yahoo! magazine hits iPad with mobile future in mind
Yahoo! on Wednesday launched a news magazine tailored for iPads as it put a happy, mobile gadget-focused face on a faded Internet star considered ripe to be bought.
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Dolby lawsuit against RIM dropped
(AP) -- Dolby Laboratories says Research in Motion has agreed to license its audio technologies that were the subject of two recent lawsuits against the BlackBerry maker.
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Build music with blocks: Audio d-touch
Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way to generate music and control computers.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 24, 2011 |
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Stanford computer scientists find Internet security flaw
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Security Laboratory create a computer program to defeat audio captchas on website account registration forms, revealing a design flaw that leaves them vulnerable ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 24, 2011 |
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Wall Street Journal launches WikiLeaks rival
The Wall Street Journal launched a WikiLeaks rival called "SafeHouse" on Thursday, calling for online submissions to help uncover fraud and abuse in business and politics.
May 05, 2011 |
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New paper on ivory-billed woodpecker published
Dr. Michael Collins, Naval Research Laboratory scientist and bird watcher, has published an article titled "Putative audio recordings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)" which appear ...
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Small remote control for hearing aids with bluetooth
A tiny remote control now enables people who wear Siemens hearing aids to transmit audio signals from a television, phone, or MP3 player directly to their hearing devices. They hear the sound much more clearly ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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A virtual Babylonian comeback 2,000 years after disappearence of natives
Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an online audio archive.
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Verbal snippets offer insights on well-being amid separation, divorce
A new study from the University of Arizona shows that people in the midst of a divorce typically reveal how they are handling things - not so much by what they say but how they say it.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 03, 2010 |
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Trumping the trumpets: How audio engineering helps tone down vuvuzela disruption (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to researchers at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary, University of London, anyone watching the World Cup on their computer can now filter out the droning sounds of vuvuzela ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 21, 2010 |
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