Exam 14: Recording and Editing Sound

____________________ audio is a recording of real music, vocals, sound effects, or speech that has been converted into electronic signals.

The height of a wave indicates frequency .

A(n) ____ is a software component that adds functionality to a browser, such as the ability to play MP3 music.

____ synthesis generates music by patching together a set of sounds that were prerecorded as individual notes from actual instruments.

Sampling rates are measured in kHz .

Speech recognition software can be integrated with graphics software.

Computers work with two general categories of sound: digital audio and MP3 sound.

____ specifies a standard way to store music data for synthesizers, electronic instruments, and computers.

You can use ____ software to capture musical themes from a MIDI instrument.

The computer's sound card is responsible for transforming the bits stored in a(n) ____ file into music, sound effects, and narrations.

Today, audio circuitry is built into the system board and called ____ audio.

The set of sounds that were prerecorded as individual notes from actual instruments is referred to as a ____ set.

A sequence of ____________________ is stored in an audio file.

Audio circuitry is typically equipped to accept ____ from a microphone.

One minute of digitally recorded music requires about 10 MB of storage space when stored in Wave format, a popular ____ or uncompressed file type.

The ____ process is similar to listening to a radio broadcast because you listen as the music is transmitted, and the music is not permanently stored on your computer.

A sequence of ____ is stored as an audio file.

____ audio is a recording of real music, vocals, sound effects, or speech that has been converted into electronic signals.

Describe how your PC digitally captures a sound wave and how sampling rates affect the quality of the file.

Music is stored on DVDs in a digital format called CD-DA.