Audacity Tutorial for Podcasters: How to Setup, Record, and Edit a Podcast
In this guide, you'll learn how to record, edit, and export your podcast episodes using Audacity - free software available for both Mac and Windows.
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A Mathematical Primer of Compression
How to reduce storage size without losing information.
Nine voice search stats to close out 2019
A look back at some of the year's key voice search and virtual assistant metrics.
Sound Decision | The Verge
Inside the world of audio branding with Skype’s new pings, bounces, and pops
What is the Best Audio Codec? — Audiophile ON
Audiophile On lists the best audio codecs for your music if you want the best sound quality, including descriptions of FLAC, OGG, ALAC, DSD, and MQA.
Background Noises • Ambient Sounds • Relaxing Music | myNoise ®
myNoise sets the standard for online background noise machines and interactive soundscapes.
The Hissing of Vintage Tapes
The ongoing fight against tape hiss has proven a useful creative tension for the music industry—even if you’re not into lo-fi music recorded on a four-track.
Skip Rates: Why The First 30 Seconds Matter More Than Ever
With the album on the wane and attention spans shorter than ever, the first 30 seconds of of a song matter more than. Not only do they need to capture. Continue reading
Learning Synths
Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.
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42 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner, Alien, Star Trek and Doctor Who Will Help You Relax & Sleep
YouTube channel where he 'composes longform space and scifi ambience.' Or what he otherwise calls 'ambient geek sleep aids.' Click on the video above, and you can get lulled to sleep listening to the ambient droning sound--get ready Blade Runner fans!-- heard in Rich Deckard's…
Home Audio Like You’ve Never Heard (Or Seen) It
Designer Chanmi Lee rethinks home entertainment in an all-new, never-before-seen format known as the Wind Sound Bar. Don't be confused by the name, however... this is anything but the sound bar you're probably imagining. The design adopts a shape similar to that of a trumpet or…
The Over and Under Speaker
Whoever said wireless audio had to "sit" hasn't seen the Aloft speaker by designer Hyeonil Jeong. The alternative design explores an entirely new way to save valuable counter or desk space. It's A-shaped form and easy-to-install, built-in hanging bracket makes it possible to…
Deep Voice 3: Scaling Text-to-Speech with Convolutional Sequence Learning
We present Deep Voice 3, a fully-convolutional attention-based neural text-to-speech (TTS) system. Deep Voice 3 matches state-of-the-art neural speech synthesis systems in naturalness while...
Baidu’s voice cloning AI can swap genders and remove accents
China's tech titan Baidu just upgraded Deep Voice. The voice-cloning AI now works faster than ever and can swap a speaker's gender or change their accent.
Rough, smooth or deep: why the sound of a voice is multisensory
Take the rough with the smooth: how the sound of a voice is multisensory, and creates interior meaning through metaphor