MEDIA
What is an Audio Media?
It is a form of media communication that uses
audio or video recording as a medium in the
delivery of information.
Listening and Hearing
Hearing
• it is the ability to perceive sound by
detecting vibrations through an organ such
as the ear.
Computers
• digital devices
• binary system
Audio Formats
1.1. Audio File Types
Wav
Optical Disc
- Storage medium from which data is read to
which it is written by lasers
- since 1982
Audio Formats
1.2. Digital Storage Devices
• Speak over the top of the microphone, not directly into it.
Accessing Audio
1. Streaming Audio
• a method of delivering audio signal to your computer
using the Internet.
• TED talks
• The Ultimate Podcasts Collection
• Podcasts.com
• LearnOutLoud.com
• This Week in Technology
Accessing Audio
3. Internet or Wi-fi Radio
• Can give access to thousands of internet radio stations.