Audio Series Research Articles

Conceptual model of the technology for calculating the similarity threshold of two audio sequences

The paper is focused on the pressing problem of speaker verification by means of voice time series comparison. The aim of this paper is to determine the orders of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients that most accurately describe the difference, between an authentic voice and an artificially generated copy for their further use as input to a neural network model in a resource-limited environment. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were accomplished: a conceptual model of the technology for determining the similarity threshold of two audio series was developed; the orders of fine-frequency cepstral coefficients with the most characteristic differences between the recording and the generated voice were determined on the basis of neural network analysis; an experimental study of the dependence of the execution time and computational load on the created feature vector when assessing the degree of similarity of two time series was conducted; and the optimal similarity threshold was determined on the basis of the chosen dataset. The developed model of the technology for determining the similarity threshold was tested on a dataset that is a combination of the DEEP-VOICE dataset and our own dataset. The demonstrated result of applying the developed technology showed an increase of 43% when using the specified MFCCs compared to using all of them. Based on experimental studies, the DTW acceptance threshold was set at 0.37.

Research of the impact of noise reduction methods on the quality of audio signal recovery

The subject of the study is the analysis of various filtering algorithms for the quality of the resulting audio files. The importance of audio line filtering has grown significantly in recent years due to its key role in a variety of applications such as speech reduction and artificial intelligence. Taking into account the growing demand for solving problems related to speech recognition, the processing of audio series becomes important for determining the accuracy and efficiency of the obtained solution.The purpose of the work is to study the impact of noise suppression methods on the quality of restoration of an audio signal, which was alternately noisy with one of five types of noise - white, pink, brown, impulse, Gaussian with different power. To achieve the goal, the following tasks were solved: an analysis of the types of noise was carried out and analysis of noise reduction and filtering methods. A generalized model of noise reduction and filtering was developed, and an experiment was planned depending on the type and power of noise. Simulation of the experiment was performed by comparing the parameters of the signal-to-noise ratio before and after the experiment and the peak signal-to-noise ratio in the processed file. The following methods are used: spectral subtraction, filtering based on frequency filters and wavelet transformation.The following results were obtained: depending on the selected noises and algorithms, it was possible to achieve the lowest value of the peak signal-to-noise ratio of 21.52db, and the signal-to-noise ratio increased, which allowed further work with these audio files. The practical significance of this work is the increase in the number of available audio files for further work.Conclusions: the analysis of the obtained results showed that filtering based on frequency filters only worsened the output signal, that is, not only noise, but also useful information is filtered. In all runs, the SNR deteriorates to - 18dB. which is worse than no filtering. Algorithms of spectral subtraction and wavelet transformation improved SNR parameters and output audio files noisy with the most powerful noises in the range of 20dB, which can be considered acceptable for further processing. The results highlight the importance of using denoising and filtering for complex audio processing tasks, particularly neural network training tasks.

Representation of Popular Islamic Movements on Social Media: A Study of the Hashtag #LogIndiCloseTheDoor

This article an discusses the Ramadan podcast series Hashtag #LogIndiCloseTheDoor as an example of the Popular Islamic Movement on social media. The series was a huge hit even though it dealt with a delicate subject. It is impossible to consider this truth to be a phenomenon deserving of the widespread success of social media material. This article is a qualitative study employing Talal Asad's Islamic Anthropology method. According to the article's conclusion, the Popular Islam Movement is a group of middle-class Muslims, particularly those in their millennial years, who are using modern and popular culture as a means of self-actualization and self-study. The media portrays him in two ways: dakwahtainment and religiotainment. Ramadan's audio series #LogIndiCloseTheDoor is one of them. The Islamic pretext Raḥmatan lil 'Ālamīn (a mercy to all creation) serves as the basis for the television show. The discussion that goes along with this series focuses on inclusivism in religion as well as the commoditization and commodification of religion. These discourses were communicated and developed into a new religious paradigm by way of the power relations network that Deddy Corbuzier, Habib Ja'far Hussein, and Leonardo da Vinci constructed. This essay contends that the #LogIndiCloseTheDoor Ramadan Hashtag audio series, which combines modern and Islamic ideals, transforms the initially conservative, restrictive, and inflexible perception of Islam into one that is inclusive, tolerant, and dynamic.

Development of Teaching Materials Based on Differentiated Learning to Improve Critical Thinking Dimensions of The Pancasila Learner Profile

This research aims to develop teaching materials based on differentiated learning to improve critical thinking dimensions of the Pancasila Learner Profile for students in elementary schools. This research uses the Design and Development (D&D) method using the ADDIE model, which consists of five stages, i.e., analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The research participants comprised grade 3 elementary school students, material experts, media experts, and learning experts. The data collection techniques used in this study were filling out work logs, testing expert validation, and learner assessments. The analysis used in this research is qualitative and quantitative data analysis. The results of this study are teaching materials in three series, namely visual series, audio series, and kinesthetic series. The study results were teaching materials obtained a validation assessment with an outstanding category. Then, to test the effectiveness of N-Gain, the results showed effectiveness in the moderate category. Thus, Teachers can utilize this differentiated teaching material to teach the material and develop students' critical thinking skills in learning IPAS in elementary school.

Analysis of the influence of selected audio pre-processing stages on accuracy of speaker language recognition

The subject matter of the study is the analysis of the influence of pre-processing stages of the audio on the accuracy of speaker language regognition. The importance of audio pre-processing has grown significantly in recent years due to its key role in a variety of applications such as data reduction, filtering, and denoising. Taking into account the growing demand for accuracy and efficiency of audio information classification methods, evaluation and comparison of different audio pre-processing methods becomes important part of determining optimal solutions. The goal of this study is to select the best sequence of stages of pre-processing audio data for use in further training of a neural network for various ways of converting signals into features, namely, spectrograms and mel-cepstral characteristic coefficients. In order to achieve the goal, the following tasks were solved: analysis of ways of transforming the signal into certain characteristics and analysis of mathematical models for performing an analysis of the audio series by selected characteristics were carried out. After that, a generalized model of real-time translation of the speaker's speech was developed and the experiment was planned depending on the selected stages of pre-processing of the audio. To conclude, the neural network was trained and tested for the planned experiments. The following methods were used: mel-cepstral characteristic coefficients, spectrogram, time mask, frequency mask, normalization. The following results were obtained: depending on the selected stages of pre-processing of voice information and various ways of converting the signal into certain features, it is possible to achieve speech recognition accuracy up to 93%. The practical significance of this work is to increase the accuracy of further transcription of audio information and translation of the formed text into the chosen language, including artificial laguages. Conclusions: In the course of the work, the best sequence of stages of pre-processing audio data was selected for use in further training of the neural network for different ways to convert signals into features. Mel-cepstral characteristic coefficients are better suited for solving our problem. Since the neural network strongly depends on its structure, the results may change with the increase in the volume of input data and the number of languages. But at this stage, it was decided to use only mel-cepstral characteristic coefficients with normalization.

Bez obrazu, czyli seriale audio. Problematyka kreacji świata przedstawionego i jego recepcji

The aim of the article is to show the issues related to the world-building present in audio series in relation to various types of acoustic spaces, a bank of sounds specific to real spaces and the creation of shared fields of action and relations within a given universe in the mind of the recipient. Further attention is paid to the issue of differentiating individual characters by creating distinctive language and sound profiles that mark them out as individuals, as well as assigning them specific sound attributes related to verbal and non-verbal communication and the soundscape characteristic of a specific place of action or social environment. The analysis also takes into account the role of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds in creating the imaginary world and controlling the recipient’s expectations, as well as the processes of understanding and interpreting (or analyzing) the audio series. The article also draws attention to the role of silence, (un)silence and various types of pauses as meaningful aspects of communication and interactions between the characters of the audio series. A separate section is devoted to the characteristics of the elements of the imaginary audio space in the context of individual cognitive universals. The conceptual framework for the analysis of these issues will be intermediality treated as (a) a process of adaptation, but also, in “adjectival” form, as (b) a specific attribute of an audio-series, i.e. an intermedia message and as (c) a user competency attribute. The article is not normative, but descriptive, i.e. it describes creative and reception practices related to the eponymous phenomenon. Due to the breadth of the research field, two perspectives are used in the article: the medium-oriented approach and the user-oriented approach.

The Audio Series Production Team's Strategy for "Catatan Pembalasan Fajar" In Retaining "Noice" Application Listeners

This research aims to determine the production team's strategies for maintaining listeners of the audio series "Catatan Pembalasan Fajar" on the Noice application. The research method used is qualitative descriptive with data collection techniques such as interviews, observations, and documentation. The paradigm employed in this research is post-positivism. The subjects of this study are the production team of the "Catatan Pembalasan Fajar" audio series on the Noice application, including the producer (key informant) and audio engineer (informant). The object of this research is the "Catatan Pembalasan Fajar" audio series on the Noice application. After conducting the research using the program strategy proposed by Peter Pringle, which includes program planning, program production, program execution, program supervision, and program evaluation, the researcher found that the production team implemented several strategies to retain listeners of the "Catatan Pembalasan Fajar" audio series on the Noice application. These strategies include selecting the thriller genre due to high demand from listeners, using bold and assertive sound design, creating an engaging storyline, and paying attention to interactions and listener interests through the comment section of each episode. Despite facing production challenges, the production team successfully created a program that attracted listeners' interest and provided a satisfying audio experience.

The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature

Facilitating the exploration of adolescents’ questions regarding nature is vital. Research suggests that their questions are important as they can reveal their interests in particular subjects and further guide their learning process. We designed a quasi-experimental study for 68 adolescents in an outdoor and indoor setting to assess the efficacy of the audio-learning materials in promoting their interest in learning more about nature. Although we did not find differences between the two settings, results show that the audio-learning materials impacted questioning by guiding participants’ focus on specific topics and promoting perceived learning. Participants also reported high satisfaction with the audio-learning materials and willingness to hear more and/or recommend them to others. As a result, we discuss the motivational role of audio-learning materials in promoting adolescents’ exploration of nature and interest in learning about nature-rich environments. We believe our study has educational and design-related implications. It problematizes how audio-learning materials may bring adolescents closer to nature and tests the potential of mobile technology as a medium. Our study also builds on existing educational strategies by further adding the importance of valuing the concept of place and its ecological and social dimensions to enhance adolescents’ contact with and interest in nature.

Analysis of the of training and test data distribution for audio series classification

The effectiveness of machine learning algorithms for any given task largely depends on the training and test datasets. This manifests itself not only in the amount of data, but also in its content (that is, its relevance for the task at hand), as well as in its organization. Generally, the common approach is to split the dataset into training and testing sets to avoid model overfitting. In addition, to achieve better metrics for the selected criteria (accuracy, learning rate, etc.) of model performance, different ratios of training and test sets are used in the partitioning. The goal of this paper is to analyze methods of data set partitioning for use in training neural networks and statistical models. One of the reviewed methods, specifically the cross-validation method, was applied to a dataset developed from the LibriSpeach corpus, an open English speech corpus based on the LirbiVox project of voluntarily contributed audio books. The result of applying the selected data partitioning method on the selected data set is demonstrated.

Antifascist Mothers and Folk Healers: Queer Reinterpretations of Polish and Regional Cultural Archetypes in Familia

The article serves as an analysis of Familia, a Polish independent fiction podcast from 2020 produced by the Teraz Poliż theatre as a response to increase of state supported homophobic propaganda in the recent years. By pointing out similarities and differences between the podcast in question and mainstream Polish audio series, as well as drawing comparisons to popular globally distributed independent audio fiction produced in English, the author aims to prove the unique position of Familia as a sole representative of a politically conscious podcast drama presenting a specifically Polish perspective on queer emancipation. The author then proceeds to analyse the narrative content of the podcast, presenting the ways in which the story plays with elements of traditional, Polish national identity, reframing them via a radical lens as potential symbolic tools for LGBTQ+ emancipation and antifascist resistance in everyday life, while at the same time warning of the limited scope of use for such tools.

Back to the Future: Maximizing Student Learning and Wellbeing in the Virtual Age.

The virtual age of learning is no longer a concern of the future. It is here. The Fall 2021 Webinar Audio Series (WAS) of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), titled “Back to the Future: Maximizing Student Learning and Wellbeing in the Virtual Age,” was designed to help health science educators equip themselves with tools to teach the next generation of health care professionals successfully. From September 2, 2021 to September 30, 2021, the Fall 2021 Series was broadcast live to audiences at academic institutions worldwide in five weekly webinars. This five-part webinar series explored theories and best practices in delivering content over virtual and online media while simultaneously promoting a positive learning environment and enhanced student wellbeing.

«Звучащее слово» в медиапредпочтениях молодежи

The development of digital technologies creates the conditions for a new stage in the development and dissemination of audio culture. Radio plays have been replaced by audiobooks, audio podcasts, and audio series. The book market is experiencing an "audio explosion". There is a steady growth of interest in audiobooks, which compete with musical content. The authors of the article turn to the study of the current state of the culture of the "audible word". This article examines the audiobook reading of student readers, who were socialized under the conditions of the large-scale spread of digital technologies. The aim of the research: to consider audioreading in the context of leisure and educational practices of young people. The study is based on theoretical approaches that consider the phenomenon of audio consumption in modern media (V.Y. Bal', M.Y. Gudova, J.P. Melentieva, V. Erlmann, W. Hagen, A. Kassabian, J.F. Lehmann). The study examined students' perceptions of audiobook reading, its place in leisure and educational practices. The authors conducted a sociological study (December 2020) with the participation of 85 students in order to identify the perceptions of audiobook reading. Qualitative methodology of analysis of answers to open-ended questions was used for the study. The design questionnaire included questions on preferred types of reading, use of audiobook reading in educational and leisure practices, reasons for interest in audiobook reading and possibilities of audiobook reading as a type of educational content. The study identified students' preferences in the choice of book format (paper, electronic, audiobooks), students' ideas about the reasons for wide distribution of audiobooks, advantages and limitations of audiobooks, convenient contexts for daily life, practices of using audiobooks in educational and leisure activities. The authors consider the potential of audiobooks in the organization of educational and leisure activities of students.

USMLE Step-1 is Going to Pass/Fail, Now What Do We Do?

The Winter 2021 Webinar Audio Series (WAS) of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), titled, “USMLE Step-1 is Going to Pass/Fail, Now what do we do?” was broadcast live to audiences at academic institutions worldwide in five weekly webinars from January 7, 2021, to February 4, 2021. Recognized experts from various stakeholder groups discussed the impact of the decision to score the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 exam Pass/Fail (P/F). The speakers identified challenges to their respective programs and explored creative ways to address potential consequences. Sessions included the perspectives of allopathic and osteopathic residency program directors, basic science faculty, undergraduate medical education curriculum designers, clinical educators, and programs for international medical students matriculating to the United States. On February 25, 2021, a bonus session provided cutting-edge updates from a co-chair of the Coalition for Physician Accountability Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) to Graduate Medical Education (GME) Review Committee (UGRC).

Audiobook, audio podcast, audio series – modern formats of the media space

The article discusses modern audioformats – audiobook, audio series and audio podcast. Now these formats have gained great popularity and demand, considerable market weight with their own segment, the growth of which experts note. The research material is audio products of the modern market, which reflect the trends in the development of audio literature in the current media environment. The scientific novelty of the work consists in the consideration of an audiobook, an audio series and an audio podcast in the context of a new stage in the development of audio culture. The problem of popularity of the studied audio products is considered in direct dependence on audio reading. It is understood as a modern modification of auditory reading, as a reader’s practice due to the qualitative changes in the material and technical base for creating audio records, for their copying and use. The analysis of audio formats in the informational, sociocultural and cognitive aspect of the modern media consumption allows the determination new editorial approaches to the work with audio texts. Conclusions are as follows: one can observe the tendency to transit from voicing printed texts to creating texts specially for voicing; there is a reduction in the novel form, stories become popular; the editing of audio books and audio series requires support from sound design principles; the editorial and director’s task on preparing podcasts is associated with the compositional alignment of several voices of storytellers, forming a single ideological and thematic field.

Sonic Commentary: Audio Series Volume 29

Sonic Commentary: Audio Series Volume 29

Sonic Commentary Audio Series Volume 28

Sonic Commentary Audio Series Volume 28

The Sun’ll Be Hotter Tomorrow: Growing Up with Climate Chaos

The following reviews take on The Great Immensity, which was performed in its current form at the Public Theater in New York during April 2014. The Great Immensity was written by Steven Cosson and Michael Friedman, key figures in the Civilians, a Brooklynbased company that engages in “investigative theater,” wedding scientific and historical research with live performance. Though some of the critics call it a “climate change musical,” the Civilians call it a “theatrical play” and “media project” on its home page (thegreatimmensity.org). The question of form arises in these reviews because the ubiquity of social media and the severity of the climate crisis put pressure on traditional theater in a manner The Great Immensity seeks to engage. It may be useful to view The Great Immensity as an incunabulum, a work that stands at the beginning of ecotheater’s attempts to dramatize climate change. The Civilians themselves recognize this play as the start of a longer commitment. Cosson and Friedman have founded the Next Forever Initiative to bring together scientists and artists to communicate biospheric realities to a popular audience through new works of art. As they describe it, “The Initiative cultivates new plays, films, video and audio series, and more that deepen our understanding of vital environmental topics. The Initiative will bring our country’s most ingenious artists together with the world’s brightest scientific minds to create thoughtprovoking and entertaining new work that focuses on conservation, energy, climate, land use, agriculture, the environmental

Reviews: Hidden Structure: Music Analysis Using Computers and Music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology

Other| April 01 2014 Reviews: Hidden Structure: Music Analysis Using Computers and Music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology Hidden Structure: Music Analysis Using Computers, by David Cope. Computer Music and Digital Audio Series 23. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2008. xxix, 344 pp. + 1 CD-ROM.Music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology, by Michael Cuthbert. Version 1.5, last modified May 11, 2013. http://web.mit.edu/music21/. Ian Quinn Ian Quinn Ian Quinn is Professor of Music at Yale University, where he teaches music theory, music cognition, and computational methods in music research. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2014) 67 (1): 295–307. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2014.67.1.295 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ian Quinn; Reviews: Hidden Structure: Music Analysis Using Computers and Music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2014; 67 (1): 295–307. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2014.67.1.295 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search The Age of Big Data is here, and we in music studies find ourselves, as usual, both ahead of the curve and behind it. Like our cognate cousins in art history, film studies, and performance studies, we have reasonable excuse for lagging behind computational literati like Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, whose Stanford Literary Lab has been opening debates across the humanities1 and making headlines in the popular press. The excuse is technical: it is easy to transform literary texts into searchable data, and hard to do so for music. Insofar as the content of a novel is made out of words, it can be encoded as a long string of small numbers (representing letters and spaces) without losing any information. Even if we allow ourselves to believe that a musical score is an adequate representation of the content of a work, the encoding problem is vastly more complex.... You do not currently have access to this content.

Unforgotten Landscapes: Radio and the Reconstruction of Germany's European Mission in the East in the 1950s

Using the example of the audio series Unforgotten Landscapes (Unvergessene Landschaften) aired on Radio Bremen in 1955, this article addresses the important role that radio played in the complex border-negotiation processes in Germany after World War II. For many years, the agency of radio as an interlocutor and discursive tool in the process of renationalization has been more or less neglected in historical research. Indeed, visual and auditory representation of the Eastern borders was a highly contaminated field in Western Germany until the 1970s. Even today, the relations between Poland and Germany are still affected by these issues. By using the German notion of Heimat as an umbrella concept, this article shows how these radio programs tried to shift the understanding of existing territorial borders, as having resulted from World War II and the atrocities of Nazi Germany to being a part of the imaginary construction of Germany as a Kulturnation. The audio series depicted the history of theses landscapes as German since medieval times, with no human beings living there in the present, but also claiming that the voices of death still can be heard. Thus, the territories could be lost, but by anchoring these landscapes in cultural memory, they would still be part of Germanness. Moreover, the programs reinforce West Germany's European mission to connect the east with the west beyond continuities with the völkisch “blood-and-soil ideology” underlying the concept of Heimat.

The great American songbooks: musical texts, modernism, and the value of popular culture

Acknowledgements A Note on Audio Series Editors' Foreword 1. Musical Literature, Its Theory and Practice Writing About Music Listening to Books Valuing Popular Culture 2. Songs Not In Thy Songs: Musical Forms and American Free Verse Leaves of Grass Eliot's Early Poetry and The Waste Land Linking Transcendentalism and Modernism 3. The Literary Soundtrack: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Heard and Unheard Melodies This Side of Paradise The Beautiful and Damned The Great Gatsby 4. Make Them Black and Bid Them Sing: Musical Poetics, Racial Transformation, and the Harlem Renaissance Cane The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew The Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance 5. Got Over: The Chorus Girl Novel and the Musical Stage Sister Carrie Manhattan Transfer U.S.A. and Beyond 6. The Bridge: Motifs in Contemporary Musical Fiction Bibliography Audio Guide Index