Paris Smaragdis is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois who specializes in research that involves machine listening. This includes source localization (where the sound is coming from), sound recognition (such as a traffic accident at an intersection) and source separation (taking individual voices or instruments out of a mix). Source separation is a
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More Web Audio Goodness
I posted before about the HTML5 Theremin built using the Web Audio API. It’s a great implementation of the powerful features of the new Web Audio specs. There are many, many more great examples found in these github pages, including a great collection of synthesizer and visualizers and games (such as Angry Birds) that use
Continue reading »Karaoke Fun with the Web Audio API Explained
Thursday’s post had a few simple examples of using the Web Audio API and HTML5 features to load sounds and process them. I got started with this following this excellent post ‘Getting Started with Web Audio API‘ along with another post I used to create the file input. Today’s post will explain some of the
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I’ve been learning a lot about the Web Audio API features built into HTML5 enabled browsers and brushing up on my javascript skills at the same time. I’ll be writing a post tomorrow to explain what it is, and how it works, but above is the result of some of my experimentation. This mini web
Continue reading »Visualizing (and Capturing) What Sound Looks Like
When we see images of sound waves (usually in DAWs like Audacity or Pro-Tools) they are usually visualized as transverse waves but in reality they are longitudinal waves caused by the displacement of air molecules resulting in compression and rarefactions in the air. (Check out the previous link for some helpful images to see the
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