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Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Audio processing
Most of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature;
that is, they consist of what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and
much more. Almost any experience you can think of, such as eating a
meal or going to the cinema, involves a magnificent sensory world.
In recent years, many of these experiences have been increasingly
transformed and capitalised on through advancements that adapt the
world around us - through technology, products, and services - to
suit our ever more computerised environment. Multisensory
Experiences: Where the senses meet technology looks at this trend
and offers a comprehensive introduction to the dynamic world of
multisensory experiences and design. It takes the reader from the
fundamentals of multisensory experiences, through the relationship
between the senses and technology, to finally what the future of
those experiences may look like, and our responsibility in it. This
book empowers you to shape your own and other people's experiences
by considering the multisensory worlds that we live in through a
journey that marries science and practice. It also shows how we can
take advantage of the senses and how they shape our experiences
through intelligent technological design.
Hone your Pro Tools music production skills and create better
tracks with Pro Tools 11: Music Production, Recording, Editing, and
Mixing. With Pro Tools 11, you'll get more than descriptions of Pro
Tools features and menus-this book grounds its Pro Tools
instruction thoroughly in real-world music production. Learn to
leverage this powerful DAW and bend it to your will, whether you're
recording and mixing a band or producing a dance track. Get tips
that will save you time, even if you're an old hand at Pro Tools.
Extensive full-color screenshots visually guide you through the
book, and an informal writing style keeps you engaged. Includes
coverage of additional features incorporated into version 10.3.6,
which can be co-installed alongside Pro Tools 11 to allow use of
TDM and RTAS plug-in formats. Author Mike Collins, an independent
music producer and music technology consultant who has worked with
Pro Tools since 1991, gives you a frank view of the software
without the hype. This book is carefully designed for users with
basic music production experience or knowledge, but can serve as a
quick learning guide for ambitious beginners or as a reference for
the advanced or professional user. Pro Tools 11 includes coverage
of the application's new features, including: Avid Audio Engine
Dynamic Host-based Plug-in Processing Low-latency Input Buffer
Offline Bounce Unified Workspace Browser Advanced Metering for Pro
Tools HD 11 Co-Install with Pro Tools 10.3.6 Level: Intermediate
Guiding you through the history and emergence of modern mastering
techniques, then providing practical hints and tips on how to use
them in your set up, Practical Mastering is the book for anyone
wanting to master this elusive art form. Providing you with solid
mastering theory underpinned by years of professional experience
and hands-on advice to getting the most out of your set up. Using
years of practical and professional experience, Mark and Russ offer
a discussion of how to effectively listen to and interpret post-mix
tracks, showing you how to pick out areas of the mix that could be
optimized or need development. Backing this up with professional
tips and tricks on how to develop and fine tuning your hearing
skills. Honing your ears to efficiently and effectively listen to
your mixes and create perfectly polished master tracks.
New synths with unique features and layers of complexity are
released frequently, with hundreds of different synths currently
available in the marketplace. How do you know which ones to use and
how do you get the most out of the ones you already own? The
Musical Art of Synthesis presents synthesizer programming with a
specific focus on synthesis as a musical tool. Through its
innovative design, this title offers an applied approach by
providing a breakdown of synthesis methods by type, the inclusion
of step-by-step patch recipes, and extensive web-based media
content including tutorials, demonstrations, and additional
background information. Sam McGuire and Nathan van der Rest guide
you to master synthesis and transcend the technical aspects as a
musician and artist. Synths are presented using a multi-tiered
system beginning with basic instructions for all common synth
techniques. Historical information is included for each type of
synth, which is designed to help you understand how each instrument
relates to the bigger picture. Advanced level instruction focuses
on modern implementations and on mobile devices, with special focus
on performing and practical usage. The goal The Musical Art of
Synthesis is to bring all of the different types of together in the
same discussion and encourage you to see the similarities and
differences that force you to gain a better overall understanding
of the synthesis process. Key features of this title: * This book
will teach you how to put synthesizers to use with easy-to-use
synth patch recipes * Using a unique, multi-tiered approach
applicable to the level of equipment in use, this publication
introduces concepts that apply to a wide range of hardware/software
synthesizers. * A robust companion website, featuring video
demonstrations by synthesizer experts, further supports the book:
www.focalpress.com/cw/mcguire
Offers a non-technical overview of all the major areas in the
computer processing of human speech: speech recognition; speech
synthesis; speaker recognition; language identification, lip
synchronisation; and co-channel separation. The text's intuitive
approach uses illustrations, analogies, and both historical and
state-of-the-art descriptions to explain relatively complex
concepts. Specifically, it helps the reader learn the professional
jargon used in different areas of speech processing, evaluate
speech processing systems for specific applications, understand how
the various technologies of speech processing actually work,
identify practical applications for speech technology in the
commercial world, and relate speech technology to actual spoken
language.
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to foundational
topics in sound design for linear media, such as listening and
recording; audio postproduction; key musical concepts and forms
such as harmony, conceptual sound design, electronica, soundscape,
and electroacoustic composition; the audio commons; and sound's
ontology and phenomenology. The reader will gain a broad
understanding of the key concepts and practices that define sound
design for its use with moving images as well as important forms of
composed sound. The chapters are written by international authors
from diverse backgrounds who provide multidisciplinary perspectives
on sound in its linear forms. The volume is designed as a textbook
for students and teachers, as a handbook for researchers in sound,
media and experience, and as a survey of key trends and ideas for
practitioners interested in exploring the boundaries of their
profession.
Simon Grimm examines new multi-microphone signal processing
strategies that aim to achieve noise reduction and dereverberation.
Therefore, narrow-band signal enhancement approaches are combined
with broad-band processing in terms of directivity based
beamforming. Previously introduced formulations of the multichannel
Wiener filter rely on the second order statistics of the speech and
noise signals. The author analyses how additional knowledge about
the location of a speaker as well as the microphone arrangement can
be used to achieve further noise reduction and dereverberation.
The author, Andrea Pejrolo, is an experienced musician,
composer/arranger, MIDI programmer, sound designer, and engineer.
In this illustrated guidebook he focuses on the leading audio
sequencers: ProTools, Digital Performer, Cubase SX, and Logic
Audio, showing how to get the most out of them. Sequencing
techniques are divided into basic, intermediate, and advanced
sections, allowing readers with different levels of expertise to
access the book at the level appropriate for them. The advice
covered includes techniques such as groove quantizing, sounds
layering, tap tempo, creative meter, and tempo changes, advanced
use of plug-ins automation, and advanced mixing. The companion
website includes examples of arrangements and techniques showing,
for example, how to avoid common mistakes - and how to fix them
when they occur.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th
International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech
Processing, SLSP 2016, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in October
2016. The 11 full papers presented together with two invited talks
were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The
papers cover topics such as anaphora and coreference resolution;
authorship identification, plagiarism and spam filtering;
computer-aided translation; corpora and language resources; data
mining and semantic web; information extraction; information
retrieval; knowledge representation and ontologies; lexicons and
dictionaries; machine translation; multimodal technologies; natural
language understanding; neural representation of speech and
language; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; parsing;
part-of-speech tagging; question and answering systems; semantic
role labeling; speaker identification and verification; speech and
language generation; speech recognition; speech synthesis; speech
transcription; speech correction; spoken dialogue systems; term
extraction; text categorization; test summarization; user modeling.
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