![]() ▰ How “urban canyons” can “prolong sonic booms in cities”: “Narrower streets introduce more complex boom propagation through multiple reflections on building facades. It also sounds pretty cool, which sure helps with a TV series about a vague counter-terrorism agency with apparently superhuman abilities.” ➔ computer.rip (Thanks, Brian Crabtree!) The staccato cadence of the Cisco ringtones, as opposed to the Merlin’s legato, is very distinctive and probably more recognizable in a loud environment. Crawford explores the sounds of old analog office phones: “To be fair, though, whatever anonymous Cisco employee sat down to copy the Merlin ringtones made some meaningful improvements. ▰ The always great Computers Are Bad by the tireless J.B. These details and variations also added verisimilitude to her encoded music.” ➔ (Thanks, Glenn Sogge!) In others, she expanded the register to be able to encode more letters and added a bass clef to extend the range of the musical scale. In some examples, Goldberg wrote only in one musical range, known as treble clef. To create the code, Goldberg assigned letters of the alphabet to notes in the chromatic scale, a 12-tone scale that includes semi-tones (sharps and flats) to expand the possibilities. in the form of musical notation: “Musical note names span the letters A to G, so they don’t provide a full alphabet of options on their own. ▰ Toward the end of the Cold War, musician Merryl Goldberg smuggled information in and out of the U.S.S.R. ▰ There’s a story in the Korea Herald about the expansion of use of voice AI by the police in sex crimes, and I’m trying to sort out if it’s a positive development, or a frightening privacy violation. ![]() population is expected to be 65 or older” - meaning hearling loss may become “commonplace.” ➔ Using voice in these moments can reduce barriers to creating new audio experiences-and open up the doors to even more new opportunities.” ➔ ▰ Spotify explains its acquisition of of the AI voice company Sonantic: “For example, this voice technology could allow us to give context to users about upcoming recommendations when they aren’t looking at their screens. ▰ Just a note that the entire second season of the CW’s Kung Fu centers around a mystical ancient bell with unique tuning that was, apparently, the cause of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. ▰ Definitely check out these interactive noise maps of Paris, New York, and London. When you think about it, isn’t Ikea the Swedish House Mafia? ➔ ▰ IKEA teamed up with Swedish House Mafia to make a turntable and a desk. ![]() Human voices have evolved over time to nuances of emphasis, dialects, and other quirks that deepfakes can’t yet match.” Jeff Elder on the technology’s Achilles’ heel - at least for now. ![]() ▰ “Deepfake audio doesn’t do emphasis well, as you might have heard in the somewhat monotonal recorded speech of customer service bots. These sound-studies highlights of the week are lightly adapted from the June 13, 2022, issue of the free weekly email newsletter This Week in Sound ( /disquiet).Īs always, if you find sonic news of interest, please share it with me, and (except with the most widespread of news items) I’ll credit you should I mention it here.
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