News tagged with audio frequency

Trumping the trumpets: How audio engineering helps tone down vuvuzela disruption (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to researchers at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary, University of London, anyone watching the World Cup on their computer can now filter out the droning sounds of vuvuzela ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 21, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Improving speed measurements for cars, bullets

While today's law enforcement officers don't wear utility belts full of crimefighting gadgets like Batman, they do rely on a variety of state-of-the-art technologies to do their jobs efficiently and safely. ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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What does a nebula sound like?

What do things sound like out in the cosmos? Of course, sound waves can’t travel through the vacuum of space; however, electromagnetic waves can. These electromagnetic waves can be recorded by devices called spectrographs ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

PhET simulations provide interactive learning tools

(PhysOrg.com) -- What causes a balloon to stick to a sweater? How do microwaves heat coffee? How is electricity generated from a bar magnet?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tiny crooners: Male house mice sing songs to impress the girls

Male house mice produce melodious songs to attract mates. Unfortunately for us, because the melodies are in the ultra-sonic range human ears cannot detect them. Through spectrographic analyses of the vocalizations of wild ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The faster-than-fast Fourier transform

The Fourier transform is one of the most fundamental concepts in the information sciences. It’s a method for representing an irregular signal — such as the voltage fluctuations in the wire that conne ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (29) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Apple seeks patents for display and noise-out systems

(PhysOrg.com) -- Apple made patent news this week in two directions, toward a Kinect like system and toward a quest for excellence in sound quality on phones. It’s been reported that Apple has filed patent ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (15) | comments 19 | with audio podcast weblog

New software tool provides unprecedented searches of sound, from musical riffs to gunshots

Audio engineers have developed a novel artificial intelligence system for understanding and indexing sound, a unique tool for both finding and matching previously un-labeled audio files.

Technology / Software

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mind reading computer system may help people with locked-in syndrome

(Medical Xpress) -- Imagine living a life in which you are completely aware of the world around you but you're prevented from engaging in it because you are completely paralyzed. Even speaking is impossible. For an estimated ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Advice to divorcees: Go easy on yourself

Divorce is tough, for just about everyone. But some people move through a breakup without overwhelming distress, even if they're sad or worried about money, while others get stuck in the bad feelings and can't seem to climb ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Robust preschool experience offers lasting effects on language and literacy

Preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary and analytic talk about books combined with early support for literacy in the home can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition, new research from ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mobile payments first step in merging phones, keys, wallets into one device

You're in the checkout line ready to pay for the items in your shopping cart.

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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