Know Audio: Microphone Basics
A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better microphone than the one built into his …read more Continue reading Know Audio: Microphone Basics
Tag Archives: Audio
The Music of the Sea
For how crucial whales have been for humanity, from their harvest for meat and oil to their future use of saving the world from a space probe, humans knew very …read more Continue reading The Music of the Sea
How To Build Good Contact Mics
We’re most familiar with sound as vibrations that travel through the atmosphere around us. However, sound can also travel through objects, too! If you want to pick it up, you’d …read more Continue reading How To Build Good Contact Mics
Google Search Live Gets a Gemini Audio Upgrade for Smoother Replies
Search Live gets an upgrade with Gemini 2.5 native audio, delivering faster, more natural voice conversations and hands-free help in the Google app.
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Audio Sound Capture Project Needs Help
When you are capturing audio from a speaker, you are rarely capturing the actual direct output of such a system. There are reflections and artifacts caused by anything and everything …read more Continue reading Audio Sound Capture Project Needs Help
An Audio Brick For Your Smart Home
If you’ve ever wanted to pump sound to all the rooms of your house, you might use any one of a number of commercial solutions. Or, you could go the …read more Continue reading An Audio Brick For Your Smart Home
Know Audio: Lossy Compression Algorithms And Distortion
In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human …read more Continue reading Know Audio: Lossy Compression Algorithms And Distortion
Are voice recognition authentication systems vulnerable to generative AI deep fakes? [closed]
Banks sometimes use voice recognition as part of their security system. This requires the user to say one specific phrase on request.
Generative AI can replicate voices quite well, refered to as audio deepfakes. This is widely available … Continue reading Are voice recognition authentication systems vulnerable to generative AI deep fakes? [closed]
Attack Turns Mouse into Microphone
As computer hardware gets better and better, most of the benefits are readily apparent to users. Faster processors, less power consumption, and lower cost are the general themes here. But …read more Continue reading Attack Turns Mouse into Microphone
A Record Lathe For Analog Audio Perfection
It’s no secret that here at Hackaday we’ve at times been tempted to poke fun at the world of audiophiles, a place where engineering sometimes takes second place to outright …read more Continue reading A Record Lathe For Analog Audio Perfection