Billie Tweets is a Twitter based tribute to Michael Jackson by the open source software developers 9Astronauts. It combines Michael Jackson’s video of Billie Jean with a karaoke style scrolling of lyrics highlighted word by word from recent tweets. Each word in the song is pulled from a new “tweet” and displayed on the website […]
Billie Tweets
July 9, 2009 // Posted in Audio Software, Culture, Visualization (Tags: Billie Jean, Billie Tweets, Michael Jackson, Tweets, Twitter) | No Comments
Google Audio: Searching for the right words
July 6, 2009 // Posted in Audio Software, Culture, Gaming, General, iPhone stuff, Software, Uncategorized (Tags: Google, Search engine, Speech, Speech Analytics, Speech recognition, Voice recognition) | No Comments
Back in February I wrote about search engines with speech recognition capabilities. Now Google has gotten into the mix with Google Audio Indexing. Google Audio Indexing is an extension of their Speech Recognition group. There are two big questions being addressed here. What information can be extracted from millions of hours of audio and how […]
InBFlat: Harmonization with YouTube
June 3, 2009 // Posted in Audio Software, Culture, Software, Visualization | 1 Comment
In Bb 2.0 is one of the more interesting websites I’ve seen in a while. “In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls.” Darren Solomon requested that fans record and post videos in the same key. He then assembled selected videos on one webpage, […]
New Musical Loop Guide Section Added!
May 29, 2009 // Posted in Audio Hardware, Audio Software, General, Software (Tags: AdamSonic, guide, how to, loops, looptastic, recording) | No Comments
If you take a look at the Pages section of AdamSonic, you’ll see a new section entitled, “Guide to musical loops!.” I created this for anyone interested in learning more about building a loop library. Enjoy! – Adam Smith-Kipnis
What is a Sound Designer?: Revisiting A 2006 interview
May 29, 2009 // Posted in Culture, Gaming, General | No Comments
I recently rediscovered an interview that I gave to an aspiring audio engineer in 2006. Three years later I’ve found that some of my views and opinions have changed and others have stayed the same…