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Queensland University of Technology: Google Australia and QUT launch A2O Search – a sound search engine to study Australian wildlife

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Queensland University of Technology: Google Australia and QUT launch A2O Search – a sound search engine to study Australian wildlife. “A2O Search will enable nonprofits, universities, and governments to easily search millions of hours of audio from the Australian Acoustics Observatory and will be open sourced to the broader research community to help influence decisions about land and wildlife management. Researchers can simply upload audio recordings of a species to find similar sounds across the database, filter by location and date, and download results for other systems.”

NASA: NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play

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NASA: NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play. “Since 2020, the “sonification” project at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Center has translated the digital data taken by telescopes into notes and sounds. This process allows the listener to experience the data through the sense of hearing instead of seeing it as images, a more common way to present astronomical data. A new phase of the sonification project takes the data into different territory. Working with composer Sophie Kastner, the team has developed versions of the data that can be played by musicians.”

PetaPixel: Canva Now Lets You Add Songs to Videos and Social Media Edits

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PetaPixel: Canva Now Lets You Add Songs to Videos and Social Media Edits. “This week, the online editing app Canva launched a music library for use in designs. The new feature allows Canva Pro and Education users to add songs to videos, presentations, and social media posts through the editing app. These projects can then be published directly to multiple platforms without the extra step of exporting.”

University of Rochester: Audio deepfake detective developing new sleuthing techniques

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University of Rochester: Audio deepfake detective developing new sleuthing techniques. “With artificial intelligence-powered audio generation making it increasingly hard to distinguish between real and fake audio, an electrical and computer engineering PhD student is working to develop tools to protect against scammers. You ‘Neil’ Zhang of the Audio Information Research (AIR) Lab at the University of Rochester received a competitive National Institute of Justice graduate research fellowship to develop new audio deepfake detection systems.”

Tape It: Tape It launches automated studio quality noise reduction AI for music

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Tape It: Tape It launches automated studio quality noise reduction AI for music (PRESS RELEASE). “Today, music software developer Tape It released their free AI-powered Denoiser that automatically removes background noise such as hums and hisses. It produces studio-quality results on full songs, single instrument tracks, and field recordings — not just on spoken word. Tape It launched its Denoiser as a free web app and will later implement it into the company’s flagship product, the Tape It iOS app, which helps musicians organize and record song ideas.”

New York Times: How to Make the Audio in Your Projects Sound Better

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New York Times: How to Make the Audio in Your Projects Sound Better. “Even if you don’t plan to start a podcast, understanding digital audio a bit more can make other tasks like recording Grandma’s stories for a family-history archive or adding a narration track to your vacation videos sound much cleaner. Here’s an overview.”

Northeastern Global News: Muting yourself might not be as safe as you think. This researcher found a way to get audio from still images and silent videos

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Northeastern Global News: Muting yourself might not be as safe as you think. This researcher found a way to get audio from still images and silent videos. “Kevin Fu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Northeastern University, has figured out a way to get audio from pictures and even muted videos. Using Side Eye, a machine learning assisted tool that Fu and his research team created, Fu can determine the gender of someone speaking in the room where a photo was taken –– and even the exact words they spoke.”

United States Courts: Judicial Conference Revises Policy to Expand Remote Audio Access Over Its Pre-COVID Policy

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United States Courts: Judicial Conference Revises Policy to Expand Remote Audio Access Over Its Pre-COVID Policy. “The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday approved a change to its broadcast policy that expands the public’s access to civil and bankruptcy proceedings over the Judiciary’s longstanding pre-COVID policy, which prohibited all remote public access to federal court proceedings. The revised policy, adopted at the Conference’s biennial meeting, will permit judges presiding over civil and bankruptcy cases to provide the public live audio access to non-trial proceedings that do not involve witness testimony.”

Mashable: YouTube is testing a new search feature powered by humming

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Mashable: YouTube is testing a new search feature powered by humming. “If you have a song stuck in your head and just can’t remember the words, YouTube is testing a new feature for you. In a blog post, the platform announced this week it will be testing a new app feature on Android phones that allows users to search for a song by humming or recording it for more than three seconds.”

University of Oregon: UO researchers make waves by turning ocean data into sound

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University of Oregon: UO researchers make waves by turning ocean data into sound. “For a three-year pilot project funded by the National Science Foundation, Bellona and a national team of researchers have transformed a year of carbon dioxide readings taken off the coast of New England into sound. Their audio exhibit is one of five case studies they created to help museums, aquariums and other informal learning environments make data more accessible.”

Mashable: 14 podcasts to teach kids about history, identity, and current events

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Mashable: 14 podcasts to teach kids about history, identity, and current events. “Mashable spoke with [Christine] Elgersma and scoured Common Sense Media’s review guides to get the top recommendations for child-friendly and thought-provoking podcasts that cover a range of topics from history to politics to identity.”

StereoNet: Keep Up With Hi-Fi Shows Around The World With This Handy New Website

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StereoNet: Keep Up With Hi-Fi Shows Around The World With This Handy New Website. “The global calendar is a super nifty tool that shows you upcoming shows worldwide, whether you’re based in the US, Australia, Europe or Asia. The website’s user interface is fantastic, allowing you to view it in the standard List view or a Month view that resembles a Google Calendar. There’s even a Map view that gives you a Google Map widget of each show’s venue.”

Hagerty Media: The last Jaguar V-8 will live forever—in a library

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Hagerty Media: The last Jaguar V-8 will live forever—in a library. “It won’t be long before every Jaguar will be powered by near-silent electricity, but the brand’s most glorious gas-guzzling legacy is to be saved forever—or at least the sound of it is. Jaguar has recorded the roar of the very last F-Type 75 R and submitted it to the British Library in London to be stored where it will ‘enable people worldwide—and for all time—to enjoy the sounds of the last combustion-engine Jaguar sports car.'”

Internet Archive: Live Music Archive Collection Now Tops 250,000 Recordings

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Internet Archive: Live Music Archive Collection Now Tops 250,000 Recordings. “The collection has steadily grown over the past 20 years as a collaborative effort between Internet Archive staff and dedicated, music-loving volunteers. At a pace of uploading nearly 30 items a day, the Live Music Archive reached the one-quarter million recording mark in June, and now takes up more than 250 terabytes of data on Internet Archive servers.”

Observer: The Master Recording of NASA’s Voyager Golden Record Heads to Auction

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Observer: The Master Recording of NASA’s Voyager Golden Record Heads to Auction. “The call of a humpback whale, a Navajo night chant and the brain waves of a woman falling in love… these are just some of the sounds recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, the phonograph time capsule affixed to spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2. As the space-faring record continues on its now 46-year journey through the emptiness, the Golden Record’s master recording is expected to fetch $600,000 at auction later this month.”