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8th Art of Record Production Conference

July 12, 2013 to July 14, 2013 – Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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IAML Annual Conference

July 28, 2013 to August 2, 2013 – Vienna, Austria
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16th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue

September 1, 2013 to September 5, 2013 – Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic
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XXIV International Bioacoustics Congress

September 8, 2013 to September 13, 2013 – Pirenópolis, Goiás, Brazil
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Richard Ranft added a discussion to the group Speech to Text

Google to add voice-activated search to Chrome web browser

Hands-free search: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/15/tech/web/google-search-update See More

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Alexander Graham Bell's voice resurrected from 1885

Archivists and scientists find a way to play recordings made by inventor Alexander Graham Bell.This wax-and-cardboard disc from 1885 contains a recording of Bell’s voice. (Richard Strauss / NMAH, SI) Full story and a sound clip are on this page. (Sadly, the audio clip is in the proprietary Quicktime format; if you want to avoid insidious crapware, try QT Lite:…See More

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Record Store Day 2013

Record Store Day came into being in 2007 when over 700 independent stores in the USA came together to celebrate their unique culture. Record Store Day 20 April 2013 presents: Billy Bragg - Live @ Rough Trade EastMetallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.The UK followed suit and 2013 will see the sixth celebration of the UK's unique independent sector. This is the…See More

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Can you hear where you are?

[forwarded from BISA-list]Dear all,Together with a group of researchers at Queen Mary University of London, I am studying how well people can recognise everyday environments from the sounds they produce, and I have designed a simple listening test for this purpose.If you can spare a few moments of your time, please go to http://www.isophonics.net/env/test/ and follow the instructions on the welcome page. You will be asked to listen and classify…See More

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Noise: a Human History on air soon

Professor David Hendy's 30-part BBC radio series "Noise: a Human History" starts on Monday 18th March 2013: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9c95The series has been made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. See the British Library's web page for other links: http://www.bl.uk/noise/Twitter tag:…See More

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AVAtech

just come across this one: "AVATech - Advancing Video Audio Technology in Humanities Research":http://www.mpi.nl/departments/other-research/research-projects/the-language-archive/projects/avatech"The goal of this project is to investigate and develop technology for semi-automatic annotation of audio and video recordings used in humanities research. Detectors that…See More

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Richard Ranft added a discussion to the group Speech to Text

interesting real-world example from Czech radio archive

http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/jmm/article/view/jmm0702159169Making Czech Historical Radio Archive Accessible and Searchable for Wide Public Jan Nouza, Karel Blavka, Petr Cerva, Jindrich Zdansky, Jan Silovsky, Marek Bohac, Jan PrazakJournal of Multimedia, Vol 7, No 2 (2012), 159-169, Apr 2012 doi:10.4304/jmm.7.2.159-169See PDF attached.Abstract: In this paper we describe a complex software platform…See More

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What is your interest in sound recordings: all kinds of sounds - whether music, speech or nature sounds - including the science of sound

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Alexander Graham Bell's voice resurrected from 1885

Posted on April 27, 2013 at 11:00 0 Comments 2 Likes

Archivists and scientists find a way to play recordings made by inventor Alexander Graham Bell.…

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Record Store Day 2013

Posted on April 14, 2013 at 12:00 0 Comments 0 Likes

Record Store Day came into being in 2007 when over 700 independent stores in the USA came together to celebrate their unique culture.

Record Store Day 20 April 2013 presents: Billy Bragg - Live @ Rough Trade East

Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third…

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Can you hear where you are?

Posted on April 4, 2013 at 23:00 0 Comments 2 Likes

[forwarded from BISA-list]

Dear all,

Together with a group of researchers at Queen Mary University of London, I am studying how well people can recognise everyday environments from the sounds they produce, and I have designed a simple listening test for this purpose.

If you can spare a few moments of your time, please go to http://www.isophonics.net/env/test/ and follow the instructions on the welcome page. You will be…

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"The Listeners" documentary on BBC radio 4

Posted on March 2, 2013 at 11:09 0 Comments 3 Likes

Excellent two-part BBC radio 4 series available online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qnyvr/episodes/guide

Episode 1: people who listen for a living, and are trained to interpret the sounds they hear: earthquake victims trapped under rubble, cardiac surgeons listening for abnormal heartbeats; wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson eavesdropping into the natural world. Broadcast 19 Feb 2013

Episode 2:…

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At 2:56 on January 15, 2012, PETER TOLL (TOLLY) said…: Thank you very much for inviting me Richard, very interesting useful community :)

At 11:19 on January 13, 2012, Linda Ligios said…: Thanks for inviting me Richard! I'm looking forward to actively participate in such an interesting community :-)