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For day 6 of #AudioMo, here's an AI attempt at audio-describing a long point of tenis.
Unfortunately I've had to butcher the description for time, but the words are all its own.
Unfortunately I've had to butcher the description for time, but the words are all its own.
Back in 2020, when I started at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford, one of the random things I used to like doing was making the Siri voices glitch out. For day 5 of #AudioMo I have dug out an old video I put up on YouTube where I made Siri glitch out on the word Yahoo repeated a whole load of times, lol.
#AudioMo: Starting it off with either a potential copout for not being an actual post, or a convenient stash of free stuff, depending on your take.
Anyway, here's a dropbox folder of over 3.5 GB of free-to-use music that may end up powering some of your submissions this month, if you want them to. I update at least once a month under normal circumstances.
PS: You don't have to be taking part in AudioMo to use these, please be my guest either way.
Last week for my birthday, I was sent a cheap 19-string Vixxnox Lyre Harp.
My current living situation doesn't allow me to make much noise in the house, so I took it out to the back yard, as today is a nice day, so I could record the sound of it, and also demonstrate my complete ineptitude at playing it.
This was recorded using a Zoom H6 Essential, using a lav microphone to pick up my voice, and the X/Y capsule to pick up everything else. I used two instances of Supertone Clear to isolate my voice on the lav, and mute my voice on the X/Y microphones, so I am always in the absolute center.
For day 5 of #AudioMo, you're welcome to a minor slice of history. During the Covid lockdown, we ran after school clubs online. One of them was App Club, where we talked tech. Here's one of the reminder audios, with no student info or anything present so it's all safe.
Not exactly fun times, but an interesting thing nonetheless.
Not exactly fun times, but an interesting thing nonetheless.
#AudioMo day 5: A Quick Look At The Nintendo Switch 2 TTS Accessibility youtu.be/xt5sPvaoshc
I've just gotten a hold of this console so I know nothing much yet, but I will learn more over the coming days and weeks.
This is a quick demo with me only having had access to it for about 30 minutes if that.
#Nintendo #Switch2 #ScreenReader #TTS #Accessibility
A Quick Look At The Nintendo Switch 2 TTS Accessibility
Reupload with fixed audio.Nintendo surprised me by releasing a console with any kind of screen-reader functionality, and I always said that if they released ...YouTube
For day 4 of #AudioMo, I talk briefly about 'the next'.
I've just been told that the book I'm reading is "the next Murderbot". I heard that hundreds of fantasy epics were "The next Game of thrones!"
Bah.
I've just been told that the book I'm reading is "the next Murderbot". I heard that hundreds of fantasy epics were "The next Game of thrones!"
Bah.
Happy #AudioMo! Here’s a moment I captured aboard Royal Caribbean’s Odyssey of the Seas cruise ship back in December. I originally hit record to catch a Cruise Director announcement, pretty routine. But just as it wrapped up, I heard something unexpected: piano music coming from an elevator.
To my surprise and delight, it was a stowaway pianist! Yes, they actually wheel a piano into the elevator and perform while it moves between floors. Naturally, I stayed on board and recorded a few selections.
Such a unique part of the cruise, I was thrilled to finally experience it in person.
To my surprise and delight, it was a stowaway pianist! Yes, they actually wheel a piano into the elevator and perform while it moves between floors. Naturally, I stayed on board and recorded a few selections.
Such a unique part of the cruise, I was thrilled to finally experience it in person.
I've never done #AudioMo before, but I'm hopping on the bandwagon, if a day late, this year.
This was a recording in October 2023, when @talon and I visited a lion and cheetah sanctuary on his trip to South Africa.
My father loves the sound of woodpeckers, and I thought I'd record this and send it to him.
This recording is 45 seconds of delightful, incessant pecking, with Talon saying "That was cool"right near the end. :)
Good morning, Great People of #AudioMO.
I did promise you poetry so, for my day 3, have a reading. I'm not a big fan of my own voice, so sorry about that. But it's one of my favourites.
Again, not a studio quality recording or anything: just me and a headset and a Braille printout (can you call Braille a printout?) in my home office.
Day two of #AudioMo and I'm afraid this is much less than i'd hoped but a little bit of ambient "streets of Glasgow" as I hobbled a short distance in a fair degree of incapacity.
For day 2 of #AudioMo, have a listen in while I use AI to solve a visual problem at work. Audio quality's not the best because I was just using a phone speaker, not the sort of recording I'd sell or anything!
It's day 1 of #AudioMo! This one is short enough I can include the full transcript here. I'll be posting (hopefully at least daily) under this hashtag until July. Where the transcript is too long it's always in the ID3 tags of the audio itself.
[Gentle birdsong proceeds the closing of a door]
Good evening, Audio Mo. Welcome to the first of the month and the first of my recordings for this delightful thirty days or so of nonsense that I'll be spouting.
[Clicks of wall outlet switches.]
I am just standing in my home office and I'm about to turn on all the power for everything which has been
turned off for the week I've been on holiday.
[The famous Apple startup sound plays in the background]
That's the MacBook coming back to life. Other
plugs I need to turn on are over here and over here. Lovely. And I need to power up
the hard drive here. Brilliant. That means that the work laptop is ready. Yes, it has
a headset in it. Keyboard for phone control is there. Let's have a look.
[Keypresses.]
Yes, three flashing
lights means fully charged. Excellent. So the week holiday was spent in Rhodes, on Rhodes
I suppose, it's an island. And it was a lovely week. I had a very good time. I'll tell you
more about it in subsequent audio posts, of course. That hard drive doesn't sound very
healthy does it? And we'll also spend some time this Audio Mo talking about what's changed
since last year, of course. What's got better, what's got worse, what's different, what's
the same. And then we'll throw in a few surprises along the way,
[a light switch is turned off]
including some cookery.
[a door is opened]
Poetry. And all the other exciting things we can think of.
[the door is closed and we are now back in the garden]
So, enjoy day one. I've certainly enjoyed
some of the introductory posts that I've come across and other people's responses and things.
I look forward to flavouring your months with me over the next four weeks.
#Blipvox the app I’ve been Alpha testing is now live in the App Store. Just in time for #AudioMo ;) apps.apple.com/gb/app/blipvox/…
#AudioMo: A quick demo of the #ElevenLabs Reader app on #iOS. I'm not yet sure if this is available on Android. Link on the App Store: ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio by ElevenLabs, Inc. apps.apple.com/gb/app/elevenla…
Edit: Here is the Android signup form. Add your email to be notified when this goes live: form.typeform.com/to/iqsk7shD
ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio
Convert text into natural, expressive speech. Ideal for articles, ePubs, PDFs, or any text. ElevenLabs Reader puts our most capable Text to Speech (TTS) model in your pocket.App Store
#AudioMo for June 30, 2024
To end AudioMo for this year, though I didn't post every day, I offer this short narrated thing I put together on June 28, 2018, demonstrating how quickly the night sounds change in my old hometown around this time of year.
I was recovering from some serious alergy badness in this recording, so my voice isn't quite what it should be. Sorry 'bout that.
I would re-record the voice track, but I apparently didn't save the project in anything but rendered format.
To end AudioMo for this year, though I didn't post every day, I offer this short narrated thing I put together on June 28, 2018, demonstrating how quickly the night sounds change in my old hometown around this time of year.
I was recovering from some serious alergy badness in this recording, so my voice isn't quite what it should be. Sorry 'bout that.
I would re-record the voice track, but I apparently didn't save the project in anything but rendered format.
#audiomo day 27: This is one of my all time favorite Jewel songs. This is Foolish Games taht I recorded back in January. darcyandholly.com/karaoke/fool…
OK #audiomo, today we are listening to some wonderful rhythmic droplets in the bathtub of a hotel in FLorida. I really hope I am going to use this sound for one of my tunes in the future. Here you go!
#AudioMo: The usefulness obtained by the power of Supertone Clear noise reduction.
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To make up for #AudioMo day 21, here's a clip of a skype call that took place between myself and my friend Trenton Matthews. We were talking about impersonations, and his female impersonation led to him talking about birth control. Honestly, it's too funny and I crack up every time I hear this. I hope you enjoy this fun little clip. :)
Have an awesome day!
Have an awesome day!
#AudioMo: It's #NottingHillCarnival 2014. You're virtually standing about 8 feet above ground level, as you are temporarily on a mic-stand. Observe the huge drumming and live music passing you by.
Dear #audiomo, it's hard to choose from dozens of travel recordings, but how about this one -- a church belltower from a distance in Bath, United Kingdom.
I just set up my home to be voice controlled and responded by well, one of my favourite audio book narrators. Its as scary as it is silly. And no, I won’t keep it so. #audiomo
Not worth me talking around this one but for day 21 of #AudioMo, have a listen to me smashing a glass. I was on Whatsapp at the time hence the encoding.
#AudioMo: Two days ago, Jake picked up a Sony #PS4 from his friend for all of £30. Yesterday, after not playing it for many, many years, I bought #Tekken2 and introduced him to it. This is my first reaction recording after not playing it for so long.
I used to sink hours and hours into this game on the original Playstation back in the 90's, so this is incredibly nostalgic for me.
From the music, to the sounds, everything is tied up in memories of yesteryear.
First, you'll hear the intro music, then a practice match so I can remember the combos, then a survival match.
His friend also found a second controller which Jake picked up yesterday after this recording happened, so we played two-player and it was a lot of fun.
One of the first times I've been able to game with my son in this way and we both loved every minute of it.
I used to sink hours and hours into this game on the original Playstation back in the 90's, so this is incredibly nostalgic for me.
From the music, to the sounds, everything is tied up in memories of yesteryear.
First, you'll hear the intro music, then a practice match so I can remember the combos, then a survival match.
His friend also found a second controller which Jake picked up yesterday after this recording happened, so we played two-player and it was a lot of fun.
One of the first times I've been able to game with my son in this way and we both loved every minute of it.
#AudioMo 2024 day 15: A day late, but never a dollar short. To make up for it, I'm sharing a fun little number introduced many years ago to an online friend who is dearly missed. I became acquainted with Marcel Oates on Twitter, and spent hours on Facetime with him. He had a sense of humor, a gorgeous voice, and loved to talk all things audio, and of course dogs. When he shared this song with me, I about fell out my chair laughing.
I still remember the night I received a text from his sister informing me of his passing. It was actually a rainy night, and I went outside and cried along with the angels, their teardrops falling around me. He was a dear friend who I didn't know for long, but made a significant impact on my life.
One of the things I remember is his humor, and his laugh. We spent so much time coming up with funny concepts and scinarios that we wish to record if we could.
Enjoy this fun little number, and I hope you have an awesome day!
I still remember the night I received a text from his sister informing me of his passing. It was actually a rainy night, and I went outside and cried along with the angels, their teardrops falling around me. He was a dear friend who I didn't know for long, but made a significant impact on my life.
One of the things I remember is his humor, and his laugh. We spent so much time coming up with funny concepts and scinarios that we wish to record if we could.
Enjoy this fun little number, and I hope you have an awesome day!
#AudioMo for June 14, 2024
This is an excerpt I recorded for "Blind Ham News," which is part of the CQ Blind Hams podcast feed.
The host, W0QA, asked for the story behind our callsigns, so I recorded this.
The full episode can be found here:
youtube.com/watch?v=QTvAie0zQs…
This is an excerpt I recorded for "Blind Ham News," which is part of the CQ Blind Hams podcast feed.
The host, W0QA, asked for the story behind our callsigns, so I recorded this.
The full episode can be found here:
youtube.com/watch?v=QTvAie0zQs…
BHN 03 The Stories Behind Several Amateur Radio Callsigns with Steve W0QA
The stories behind the Amateur Radio Call signs from: Jessica, KE8UPE, Robert, NC5R, Patrick, N2DYI and Steve W0QABlind Ham News Podcast Host: Steve Bauer W0...YouTube
Yesterday's #audioMo didn't post, so here it is again. or for the first time, maybe. A look at the changes to #BrailleScreenInput in #VoiceOver on the upcoming #iOS18.
#AudioMo: A great sound as our Samsung washingmachine cleans itself. Water is spinning at a high rate of speed, and if you used this sound in a game and turned it down, put some engine noise under it, perhaps it could be a boat crossing a lake or something.
Let's end with a completely silly #AudioMo: Welcome to the sounds of 'The Pink Trombone' which is one of the more bizarre finds in recent times. A few years ago someone told me about this. If you click this site from your phone and disable your screen-reader (if applicable) you too, can have fun making some of the most ridiculous noises known to people anywhere.
Note: Do not drink and listen to this. I cannot be held responsible.
dood.al/pinktrombone/
Note: Do not drink and listen to this. I cannot be held responsible.
dood.al/pinktrombone/