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Digital Audio -Michelle Báez- - Coggle Diagram
Digital Audio
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Acoustic
Meaning
Refers to the branch of physics that studies sound
Unit of measure
Decibel
Is abbreviated as
"dB"
and is the unit we use to measure the intensity of sound pressure levels (loudness or
volume)
Sound or audio
Meaning
It refers to the reproduction and transmission of sound stored in a digital format.
Formats
MP3
Is the name of the file extension and also the common name of the type of file for
MPEG-1 audio layer 3
WMA
Its initials mean Windows Media Audio ile Format. This format is based in ASF (Advanced Systems Format) which wraps an audio bitstream. The web site documents versions of the format that contain bitstreams encoded by the program.
Wave
Is an audio file format created by Microsoft which has become a standard PC audio file format for everything from system and game sounds to CD-quality audio. You can identified by a file name extension of WAV (. wav).
MIDI
Its initials mean Musical Instrument Digital Interface and is a technical standard that describes a protocol of digital interface and connectors which allows a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another
RealAudio
Is a compressed audio format created in 1995 by Progressive Networks that was popular in the 1990s and early 2000s and then supplant by actual formats as MP4. This format allows users to listen to music as it is being downloaded and the process is known as streaming.
Digital audio
Is created when you represent the characteristics of a sound wave using
numbers in a process referred as digitizing