Sound, Vibration & Acoustics Digest #7

Chip/crisp packets, smartphones, the spooky sounds in space and the absolutely fascinating Diana Deutsch Speech to Song Illusion; welcome to our latest digest Extracting audio from visual information https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804Algorithm recovers…

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A Weighting. And B. And C.

Some devices, particularly digital tape recorders, apply A-weighting to all their data to achieve acceptable data compression. This is fine unless you want to analyse the unweighted data or apply a different weighting factor. Using Prosig’s DATS software, it is a simple task to instruct the WEIGHT module to either unweight the data or remove one weighting factor and apply another.

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