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Future Macs may adjust their audio depending on where you're sitting or standing - and based on how many folks are in a room. Apple has filed for a patent (number 20170249122) for "devices with enhanced audio." The patent involves a system for enhancing audio including a Mac and an output device. The Mac includes a sensor configured to determine a user location relative to the computer. The sensor is also configured to gather environment data corresponding to an environment of the computer.

S3A is a major new five-year UK research collaboration between internationally leading experts in 3D audio and visual processing, the BBC and UK industry. The partnership aims to unlock the creative potential of 3D sound to provide immersive experiences to the general public at home or on the move. S3A will pioneer a radical new listener centred approach to 3D sound production that can dynamically adapt to the listeners' environment and location to create a sense of immersion. Current 3D sound systems rely upon fixed loudspeaker arrangements and acoustically treated rooms that are not practical for home use. S3A will change the way audio is produced and delivered to enable practical high-quality 3D sound reproduction based on listener perception.

Object Audio

Channel 4 is bolstering its video on demand advertising package with a new ad format that can directly address viewers by their name. Accessing registration data, the company can directly address viewers with an audio personalised digital ad campaign.

Web Audio and Perceptive Media | The Worm Hole

Lyrebird is the first company to offer a technology to reproduce the voice of someone as accurately and with as little recorded audio. Such a technology raises important societal issues that we address in the next paragraphs.

fast audio word alignment tools

Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.

To this day, its labs are cooking up experiments that may completely change the way we consume audio and video, and I went to take a look at them.

The exciting thing this year is that we're reaching a critical mass of technology adoption for a wealth of new video and audio media experiences - media that responds dynamically to the consumer's attention, engagement and context: Responsive Media.

"Workshop by Ian Forrester (BBC/R&D): Perceptive Podcasting - creating audio experiences unique to each listener (en)"

In the field of digital and interactive television, Nested Context Language (NCL) is a declarative authoring language for hypermedia documents. NCL documents do not contain multimedia elements such as audio or video content; rather they function as a "glue" language that specifies how multimedia components are related. In particular, NCL documents specify how these components are synchronized relative to each other and how the components are composed together into a unified document. Among its main facilities, it treats hypermedia relations as first-class entities through the definition of hypermedia connectors, and it can specify arbitrary semantics for a hypermedia composition using the concept of composite templates.

Placemaking voicemap

"Imagine if audio (and video) broadcasts and podcasts were combinations of the broadcasters' and local playlists. If music cannot be licensed for more than seven days, the podcast playing application could insert music from the playlists on the listener's device. "

"XIMPEL is a free open-source platform to create interactive media applications. To this end, it uses the HTML5 standard, as well as the open XML description format. Using XIMPEL, it is possible to weave together video, audio, images and other media, thus creating interactive videos and other touch-based web applications. XIMPEL's modular approach allows for flexibility and extendibility."