I know this is mostly an audio blog, but in my last post I talked about how to make your voice sound good when participating in a meeting on Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams or similar online meeting formats. But in participating in these meetings, I have become aware that the visual image of many participants…
ZOOM AUDIO THAT SIZZLES
With the Covid-19 precautions we have had since March of 2020 a lot of communication I am involved with has been via Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams and similar apps. I notice that some people use these more effectively than others, both in terms of the sound and of the visual images of themselves. I will…
CAPTURE OR CREATE?
I work both in professional photography (mostly fine art) and professional audio recording (especially classical music and spoken word). I am going to start this point with a discussion of photographic approaches, then show how the same ideas apply to audio recording. I first want to contrast captured images with created images. My goal is…
TEXT TO SPEECH
Lately I have received several promotions for software designed to take a text file and convert it into natural speech. The idea is one can produce narration or other oral information without hiring a professional narrator. Although I will get to certain issues related to text to speech, it will be useful to begin with…
VISUAL ART AND SOUND
This post is about sound environments for visual artists, such as painters, photographers, sculptors, etc. I am primarily talking about sound in a gallery display of such art more than, say, a film made about a certain artist’s work or a multimedia immersive work of art. If you read to the end you will learn…