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KKK 4714 MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM

Sound Card
Basic components

Memory banks
DSP
DAC/ADC
Wavetable/FM synthesizer chip
CD interface
16-bits ISA connector / PCI

I/O ports

I/p MIC
i/p Line-in
o/p Speakers
o/p Line out
MIDI

Data process
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Audio Transmission
AES/EBU (audio engineering society/european
broadcasting union)

For carrying digital audio signal

Format for serial digital transmission of two channels
of periodically sampled and uniformly quantized audio
signals on a single twisted wire pair
Transmission rate is such that samples of audio data
one from each channel are transmitted in time
division multiplex in one sample period.
Types of connectors

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Sony Phillips Digital Interconnect Format

(SPDIF)

Transmission between devices

Different in physical connectors

Phone audio jack (2.5mm, 3.5mm, 6.5mm)

2 or 3 conductors

RCA jack

Each signal requires a single cable

XLR Audio Connector

Canon
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TOSLINK Connector
Phonograph Cylinder
Gramophone record
Wire recording
Reel-to-reel rape recording
8-track cartridge
Compact cassette
Microcassette
Elcaset
Compact Disk Digital Audio System
Digital Audio Tape
Digital Data Storage
Digital Compact Cassette
Minidisk

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Audio File Formats and CODEC

WAV
AIFF (audio interchangeable file format)
MIC
AU
MP3
VOC
RMF
WMA
RA (realaudio)
Ogg vorbits
ATRAC (adaptive transform acoustic coding)
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Audio Recording System

Dolby System

Analog Recording
Dolby A-type NR (noise reduction)
Dolby B-type NR
Dolby C-type NR
Dolby S-type NR
Dolby Spectral Recording (SR)

Digital
Dolby Digital (AC-3)
Dolby Digital Surround EX
Dolby Spectral Recording
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Dolby Stereo

Encoding and Decoding

Dolby AC-2
Dolby AC-3
Dolby Digital EX
Dolby Digital Live
Dolby Digital Plus
Dolby E
Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP)

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Matrix (expand any two channel audio to

multichannel sound)
Dolby Pro-Logic
Dolby Pro-Logic II
Dolby Pro-Logic IIx
Dolby Surround

Virtual (DSP for surround system)

Dolby Headphones
Dolby Virtual Speakers

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Digital Theatre System (DTS)

DTS Digital Surround

DTS Extended Surround (ES)
DTS NEO:6
DTS 96/24
DTS Digital Out
DTS Interactive
DTS Virtual

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Digital Audio Broadcasting

Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM)
EUREKA 147
Digital Audio Radio Satellite (DARS)
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB)
iBiquity
Radio Data System (RDS)
XM Satellite Radio

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Audio and Multimedia

Types of audio that can be incorporated intro
a multimedia presentation:

Speech
Power to persuade
Eliminate the need of extra video/image
Two types of speech: digitized and synthesized

Music
Set a tone or mood
Provide connections or transitions
Add interest and excitement
Evoke emotion
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Can enhance the presentations of text and visuals

Sound Effects:
Enhance the presentation
Two types of sound effects are natural and
synthetic

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Suggestions for Using Audio

Content
In your opinion, what are the criteria of a
good:

Speech?
Music?
Sound effects?

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Voice Recognition and

Response
Enable computers to understand and
response to the audio signal
The architecture of the voice recognition
and response system

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Audio Processing Software

A software that is used to
manipulate/process/play the audio signal
For examples:

Reduce noise
Expand the channels
Mixing sounds
Change the bit depth

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