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ZOOM VIDEO THAT MAKES YOU LOOK GOOD

January 6, 2021 By Eric Somers Leave a Comment

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…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized, VISION RELATED TO AUDIO

ZOOM AUDIO THAT SIZZLES

December 28, 2020 By Eric Somers 1 Comment

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…

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Filed Under: NEWS, SONIC CREATIVITY, SOUND BASICS Tagged With: online meetings, Zoom audio

CAPTURE OR CREATE?

December 13, 2020 By Eric Somers Leave a Comment

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…

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Filed Under: SONIC CREATIVITY, SOUND BASICS

TEXT TO SPEECH

June 27, 2020 By Eric Somers 1 Comment

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…

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Filed Under: IDEAS FOR VOICE TALENT, SONIC CREATIVITY, VOICE PRODUCTION, VOICE RECORDING

VISUAL ART AND SOUND

February 23, 2020 By Eric Somers Leave a Comment

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…

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Filed Under: SONIC CREATIVITY, SOUND BASICS

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