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Vienna’s Austrian Audio has announced a pocket recording system designed to capture “what you want, where you want, and when you want.” The MiCreator Studio wraps a tilting condenser microphone and a USB audio interface into one rugged package.Continue… Continue reading Austrian Audio puts out a studio-grade microphone for your pocket
Sine-wave speech can be thought of as a sort of auditory illusion, a sensory edge case in which one’s experience has a clear “before” and “after” moment, like going through …read more Continue reading Sine-wave Speech Demonstrates an Auditory One-way Door
As long-time Hackaday readers will know, there is much rubbish spouted in the world of audio about perceived tone and performance of different hi-fi components. Usually this comes from audiophiles …read more Continue reading Just What is Tone, in a Microphone?
One of the persistent challenges in audio technology has been distinguishing individual voices in a room full of chatter. In virtual meeting settings, the moderator can simply hit the mute …read more Continue reading Robotic Mic Swarm Helps Pull Voices Out of Crowded Room of Multiple Speakers
Speech jammers were a meme a little while back. By feeding back delayed voice audio to a person’s ears, it makes it near-impossible for most people to speak, as our …read more Continue reading Hypersonic Speech Jammer Works At A Distance
[Pete Lewis] from SparkFun takes audio and comfort seriously, and recently shared details on making a customized set of Super Headphones, granting quality sound and stereo ambient passthrough, while providing …read more Continue reading These DIY Super Headphones Take Sound Seriously
UW researchers say they can now mute different parts of a noisy room, or isolate one conversation in a chaotic environment, thanks to a swarm of small audio robots that auto-position themselves to pinpoint and follow multiple moving sound sources.Conti… Continue reading Autonomous audio robot swarm can mute conversations in chaotic rooms
Some Windows users reported that the Aux cable is not working on their computers. For some users, there is no sound coming out of their headphones, whereas, for others, only the side of the headphones is working when connected with the aux cable. In th… Continue reading AUX cable not working on PC [Fix]
Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on …read more Continue reading Preserving Floppy Disks
Even as music streaming services and podcast apps dominate most of our listening time, it’s still a great idea to keep a radio on hand, if for nothing else than …read more Continue reading ESP32 Drives Tiny FM Radio