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Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Audio processing
An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that
traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.
Spotify provides a streaming service that has been welcomed as
disrupting the world of music. Yet such disruption always comes at
a price. Spotify Teardown contests the tired claim that digital
culture thrives on disruption. Borrowing the notion of "teardown"
from reverse-engineering processes, in this book a team of five
researchers have playfully disassembled Spotify's product and the
way it is commonly understood. Spotify has been hailed as the
solution to illicit downloading, but it began as a partly illicit
enterprise that grew out of the Swedish file-sharing community.
Spotify was originally praised as an innovative digital platform
but increasingly resembles a media company in need of regulation,
raising questions about the ways in which such cultural content as
songs, books, and films are now typically made available online.
Spotify Teardown combines interviews, participant observations, and
other analyses of Spotify's "front end" with experimental, covert
investigations of its "back end." The authors engaged in a series
of interventions, which include establishing a record label for
research purposes, intercepting network traffic with packet
sniffers, and web-scraping corporate materials. The authors'
innovative digital methods earned them a stern letter from Spotify
accusing them of violating its terms of use; the company later
threatened their research funding. Thus, the book itself became an
intervention into the ethics and legal frameworks of corporate
behavior.
Get up and running with the fundamentals of Amazon Alexa and build
exciting IoT projects Key Features Gain hands-on experience of
working with Amazon Echo and Alexa Build exciting IoT projects
using Amazon Echo Learn about voice-enabled smart devices Book
DescriptionAmazon Echo is a smart speaker developed by Amazon,
which connects to Amazon's Alexa Voice Service and is entirely
controlled by voice commands. Amazon Echo is currently being used
for a variety of purposes such as home automation, asking generic
queries, and even ordering a cab or pizza. Alexa Skills Projects
starts with a basic introduction to Amazon Alexa and Echo. You will
then deep dive into Alexa Programming concepts such as Intents,
Slots, Lambdas and maintaining your skill's state using DynamoDB.
You will get a clear understanding of how some of the most popular
Alexa Skills work, and gain experience of working with real-world
Amazon Echo applications. In the concluding chapters, you will
explore the future of voice-enabled applications and their coverage
with respect to the Internet of Things. By the end of the book, you
will have learned to design Alexa Skills for specific purposes and
interact with Amazon Echo to execute these skills. What you will
learn Understand how Amazon Echo is already being used in various
domains Discover how an Alexa Skill is architected Get a clear
understanding of how some of the most popular Alexa Skills work
Design Alexa Skills for specific purposes and interact with Amazon
Echo to execute them Gain experience of programming for Amazon Echo
Explore future applications of Amazon Echo and other
voice-activated devices Who this book is forAlexa Skills Projects
is for individuals who want to have a deep understanding of the
underlying technology that drives Amazon Echo and Alexa, and how it
can be integrated with the Internet of Things to develop hands-on
projects.
Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of
microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a
second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and
manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional
building blocks of music -- notes and their intervals -- into a
more fluid and supple medium. The sensations of point, pulse
(series of points), line (tone), and surface (texture) emerge as
particle density increases. Sounds coalesce, evaporate, and mutate
into other sounds.Composers have used theories of microsound in
computer music since the 1950s. Distinguished practitioners include
Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. Today, with the increased
interest in computer and electronic music, many young composers and
software synthesis developers are exploring its advantages.
Covering all aspects of composition with sound particles,
Microsound offers composition theory, historical accounts,
technical overviews, acoustical experiments, descriptions of
musical works, and aesthetic reflections. The book is accompanied
by an audio CD of examples.
About This Book Enable a full cost-effective unified communications
server solution Go from a single server configuration to a
multi-site deployment Implement the Call Center module and take
advantage of all the VoIP and Unified Communications features
available Who This Book Is ForThis book is aimed at those who want
to learn how to set up an Elastix Unified Communications Server
without losing ground on Unified Communications and Voice over IP.
"GarageBand X - How it Works" from the GEM series (Graphically
Enhanced Manuals) explains Apple's popular music production
application "GarageBand" with rich illustrations and diagrams that
are not found in any other manual (this is the only manual
available). This 321 pages letter size book presents this software
application in great detail with that easy to understand, visual
approach.- What are Graphically Enhanced Manuals (GEM)? They're a
new type of manual with a visual approach that helps you UNDERSTAND
a program, not just LEARN it. No need to read through 500 of pages
of dry text explanations. Rich graphics and diagrams help you to
get that "aha" effect and make it easy to comprehend difficult
concepts. The Graphically Enhanced Manuals help you master a
program much faster with a much deeper understanding of concepts,
features and workflows in a very intuitive way that is easy to
understand.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking For Dummies, 4E will introduce readers to
everything they need to know to get started with this advanced
voice recognition software. Readers will get the most up-to-date
information on the latest version of the software. PART I: Hatching
and Launching Your Dragon Software Chapter 1: Preparing for Dragons
Chapter 2: Basic Training Chapter 3: Launching and Controlling Your
Dragon PART II: Fire-Breathing 101 Chapter 4: Basic Dictating
Chapter 5: Selecting, Editing, and Correcting in the
NaturallySpeaking Window Chapter 6: Fonts, Alignment, and All That:
Formatting Your Document Chapter 7: Proofreading and Listening to
Your Text Chapter 8: Using Recorded Speech Chapter 9: Mobile
Edition and NaturallyMobile Recorder PART III: Giving Your
Applications Wings Chapter 10: Dictating into Other Applications
Chapter 11: Controlling Your Desktop and Windows by Voice Chapter
12: Using NaturalWord for Word and WordPerfect Chapter 13: A Dragon
Online Chapter 14: Dragon Your Data Around Chapter 15: Staying
Organized on the Move PART IV: Precision Flying Chapter 16: Feeding
Your Dragon: RAM, Disk Space, and Speed Chapter 17: Speaking More
Clearly to Your Dragon Chapter 18: Additional Training and
Vocabulary Building Chapter 19: Improving Audio Input Chapter 20:
Dealing with Change Chapter 21: Having Multiple Users or
Vocabularies Chapter 22: Creating Your Own Commands Chapter 23:
Taking Draconian Measures: Workarounds for Problems PART V: The
Part of Tens Chapter 24: Ten Common Problems Chapter 25: Ten
Time-and-Sanity-Saving Tips Chapter 26: Ten Mistakes to Avoid
Chapter 27: Ten Stupid Dragon Tricks
The only manual for Logic Remote, covering all the features of this
companion app for the new "Logic Pro X." "Logic Remote (iPad) - How
it Works" from the GEM series (Graphically Enhanced Manuals)
explains Apple's brand new iPad app "Logic Remote" with rich
illustrations and diagrams that are not found in any other manual
or even in Apple's own documentation. This 68 pages letter size
book presents this software application in great detail with that
easy to understand, visual approach. This book is in fact the only
comprehensive manual for this app.
What are Graphically Enhanced Manuals (GEM)?
They're a new type of manual with a visual approach that helps you
UNDERSTAND a program, not just LEARN it. No need to read through
500 of pages of dry text explanations. Rich graphics and diagrams
help you to get that "aha" effect and make it easy to comprehend
difficult concepts. The Graphically Enhanced Manuals help you
master a program much faster with a much deeper understanding of
concepts
Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology and Design covers key topics in
the field of spoken language dialogue interaction from a variety of
leading researchers. It brings together several perspectives in the
areas of corpus annotation and analysis, dialogue system
construction, as well as theoretical perspectives on communicative
intention, context-based generation, and modelling of discourse
structure. These topics are all part of the general research and
development within the area of discourse and dialogue with an
emphasis on dialogue systems; corpora and corpus tools and semantic
and pragmatic modelling of discourse and dialogue.
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