If you combine the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager, you get a desktop with a bit more panache than if you were to use Xfce alone. Compiz helps to turn Xfce into something akin ...

Streaming services and hi-fi brands now promote “lossless” music as the new gold standard, promising studio-grade sound in ...

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

The Multimedia Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia focuses on various technologies in real-time multimedia communication, encompassing low-level video and audio processing, compression, ...

Input Audio (16kHz) ↓ [CC Encoder] ├─→ Short-context stream (10ms stride) → 64-D features (Cs) └─→ Long-context stream (40ms stride) → 64-D features (Cl) ↓ [Quantization] (1-bit delta modulation) ↓ ...

Abstract: The 3GPP Immersive Voice and Audio Services (IVAS) codec enables mobile spatial communication through coding of the metadata-assisted spatial audio (MASA) format. The MASA format is a new ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

As helpful as they are for soreness and fatigue, compression socks get a bad rap. They’re usually associated with the unattractive, stuffy garments you are prescribed medically or pick up at a ...

Microsoft's new Bluetooth standard will improve audio quality. The new standard is designed for online games and virtual meeting apps. You can chat via a Bluetooth headset with no drop in sound ...

Abstract: During the last decade, audio streams became an essential and fast means of communication through personal and business applications including social media and telehealth applications. Thus, ...