Audio Media Manuscript EDU135A
Audio Media Manuscript EDU135A
Audio Media Manuscript EDU135A
AUDIO MEDIA
● Media communication that uses audio or recordings to deliver and transfer information
through the means of sound.
● May refer to audio formats.
● May refer to analog, tape, cassettes, and digital cd’s, computer files containing audio, in
any number of digital formats.
a. Radio broadcast - live or recorded audio sent through radio waves to reach a wide
audience.
b. Music - vocal and/or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty
of form, harmony, and expression of emotions.
c. Sound recording - recording of an interview, meeting, or any sound from the
environment.
d. Sound clips/effects - any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to
create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
e. Audio Podcast - a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed
series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer.
a. MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3) - a common format for consumer audio, as well as a standard of
digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players.
b. M4A/AAC (MPEG-4 Audio/Advanced Audio Coding) - an audio coding standard for lossy
digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally
achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.
C. WAV - is a Microsoft audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It has
become a standard file format for game sounds, among others.
b. CD - a plastic-fabricated, circular medium for recording, storing, and playing back audio,
video, and computer data.
c. USB Drive - an external flash drive, small enough to carry on a key ring, that can be used
with any computer that has a USB port.
d. Memory Card - (aka flash memory card or storage card) is a small storage medium used to
store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable, or remote
computing devices.
e. Computer Hard Drive - secondary storage devices for storing audio files.
f. Internet/Cloud - websites or file repositories for retrieving audio files, and more precisely the
files are stored in some datacenter full of servers that are connected to the Internet.
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REFERENCES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvZHV9hXDzc
https://www.slideshare.net/bryesguerra/audio-media-23347010
https://fcit.usf.edu/distance/chap7.htm#:~:text=Audio%20files%20are%20also%20easy,element
s%20that%20many%20students%20desire.