Collaborate Disseminate
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
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
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
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]
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
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
Electret capsules can be found in some of the highest quality microphones for studio use, as well as in some of the very cheapest microphone capsules on the market. More …read more Continue reading The Electret Preamp You Might Need
The Component Abuse Challenge is dragging all sorts of old, half-forgotten hacks out of the woodwork, but this has got to be the most vintage: [KenS] started using a transformer …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Sweet Sound of a Choking Transformer
It’s been a while since the last installment in our Know Audio series, in which we investigated distortion as it applies to Hi-Fi audio. Now it’s time to return with part …read more Continue reading Know Audio: Distortion Part Two
S/PDIF has been around for a long time; it’s still a really great way to send streams of digital audio from device A to device B. [Nathan Ladwig] has got …read more Continue reading ESP32 Decodes S/PDIF Like A Boss (Or Any Regular Piece of Hi-Fi Equipment)