AUDIO INFORMATION

AND MEDIA
 DEFINITION OF TERMS

• Audio – the sound within the acoustic range available

to humans
- can have a range of 20-20,000 hertz to
produce acoustic sound
• Digital Audio – any audio that can be used to record,
store, generate, manipulate and produce sounds using
digitally converted audio signals.
• Hertz – unit for sound frequency
• Analog/ Analogue Signal –is any continuous signal that
represents time-varying quantities.
• Think of electrical voltage that changes overtime
 DEFINITION OF TERMS

DIGITAL AUDIO COPIED DEVICE

- Reproduction of a digital music recording whether it is
reproduced from another digital recording or indirectly from a
transmission
DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDING DEVICE
- Any machine or device used to record digital recordings intended
for private use. Recordings except professional model products
and dictation/ answering machines.
DIGITAL AUDIO INTERFACE DEVICE
- Any device or machine used to communicate digital audio
information.
 DEFINITION OF TERMS

DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDING MEDIUM

- Any machine or device mostly used by consumers
in the marketing side for the purpose of making
digital audio copied recording.
DIGITAL MUSICAL RECORDING
- These are fixed; they can be evaluated,
reproduced and communicated with the help of a
machine or device.
 DEFINITION OF TERMS

SPOKEN WORD RECORDING

- Sound recording in which are fixed only a series of
spoken words
DISTRIBUTE
- To sell, lease or assign products
INTERESTED COPYRIGHT PARTY
- The owner of the exclusive right this title to
reproduce a sound recording of the musical work
DEFINITION OF TERMS

MUSIC PUBLISHER
- A person authorized to license
the reproduction of a particular
musical work in sound recording
WRITER
-composer/ lyricist of a particular
musical work
AUDIO FILE FORMAT

• file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system.

TYPES OF AUDIO FORMATS

• Uncompressed Audio – non compressed audio; data is still
available; are large in file size
• Loseless Compression – compressed audio; still has data and still
keeps the audio’s quality
• Lossy Compression – compressed audio; loss of data; smaller in
file size; is popular online and can be downloaded easier from the
internet.
COMMON WINDOWS-COMPATIBLE AUDIO FILE
FORMATS
• MP3 (.mp3) – name of the type of file for MPEG, audio
layer 3
- Layer 3 – removes all unnecessary
information(more specifically irrelevant and redundant
parts of a sound signal)
• WMA (.wma) – Windows Media Audio
- a Microsoft file format for encoding digital
audio files similar to MP3; can be of any size compressed
to match many different connection speeds or bandwidths.
COMMON WINDOWS-COMPATIBLE AUDIO FILE
FORMATS
• WAV (.wav) – used for storing sound in files developed
jointly by Microsoft and IBM.
- can be played by nearly all Windows
applications that support sound.
• Real Audio (.ra, .ram, .rm) – a propriety program; used
to stream audio in real time using RealPlayer.
• MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) – a standard
adopted by the electronic music industry; represents the
sound’s note pitch, length and volume.
COMMON WINDOWS-COMPATIBLE AUDIO FILE
FORMATS

•OGG (.ogg) – an audio compression

format; used to store and play digital
music
- free, open and unpatented
audio.
SOUND DESIGN

• PROCESS OF SPECIFYING, ACQUIRING,

MANIPULATING OR GENERATING AUDIO
ELEMENTS
• SOUND DESIGNER – ONE WHO PRACTICES
SOUND DESIGN
SOURCES OF AUDIO INFORMATION

•INTERNET-BASED AUDIO
•RADIO BROADCASTS
•RECORDINGS
ADVANTAGES OF SPEECH

•Speech has enormous expressive power

•With voices we can vary intonation,
pace, volume and pitch to:
Emphasize significant points
Clarify intent and point of view
Sharpen impact
Provide background and emotional tone
Alter meaning
LIMITATIONS OF SPEECH

•Sound is transient
•The listener must hear, remember and
put together a live stream of words as
they are spoken
 HEARING VS. LISTENING

•Involuntary •voluntary act

process that where we can
starts with
noise, try to make
vibrations, the sense out of
movement of the noise we
fluid in the ears hear.
and sound sent
to the brain
WORKING OUT LOUD

•A way to ensure others know

what you are doing, and, to be
conscious of your own work