Jerry Ma Future of Audio Advantages of Audio - cheap - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Jerry Ma

Future of Audio

Advantages of Audio - cheap - accessible - immersive - intimate - emotive - easy-to-produce - easy-to-use - can described by metadata - can be consumed on many devices - can be consumed while doing something else

Current audio problems 1. Linearity: If your attention distracted cannot come back 2. Passiveness: - If don’t understand something cannot get the answers - If don’t like cannot skip some part

Interaction with audio * Control of playback * Reception of info from other sources

Technical Solutions

Object based audio

Metadata - the data that describes other data - should be done manually Amazon Mechanical Turk

Speech recognition

Speech synthesis

Thank you for listening! Olena Shkarpova, Ma Xuxiao, Jerry Fan