Chapter 1 : Data Representation

Converting Voice to Binary

12 Audio Storage
Previously we Learned
• How images are represented
in digital format?

• Pixel

• Color Table

• Monochromatic and color

image representation.
How the sound waves are stored in a computer?
 LESSON OBJECTIVE

• How voice is stored on a

computer?
Voice Storage

KEYWORDS SUCCESS CRITERIA

• Sound Sampling
• Analog to Digital converter • Able to understand how
• Sample rate sound are stored as a array of
• Sample resolution digital sound.
 Representing sound
• Sound needs to be converted into binary for
computers to be able to process it.

• To do this, the sound is captured - usually by a

microphone - and then converted into
a digital signal.
 Analogue to Digital converter

• An ADC will sample a sound wave at regular

time intervals.
 Audio sampling
• Audio sampling is the process
of transforming a sound source
(Analog) into a digital file.

• An analog-to-digital converter
will capture a sound wave at
regular time intervals. This
recording is known as a sound
sample.
 Sample rate
• The sampling rate refers
to the number of samples
of audio recorded every
second.
• A higher sample rate
provides to deliver a
better-quality audio
reproduction.
 6 samples in one second
3 samples in one second
 Sample rate
• Common sample rates are 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz,
and 96 kHz.
• kHz stands for kilohertz, or 1000 samples per
second,
• 44.1 kHz represents 44100 samples per
second.
 Sample resolution
• Sample resolution is the number of bits used
to represent each sample.
• If more bits are available for each sample,
then more levels of the signal can be
captured, which improves the detail of the
recording.
4 amplitudes in 2 bits. 16 amplitudes in 4 bits.
 SUMMARY

• ADC
• Sound Sampling
• Sample rate
• Sample resolution
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