Exam 14: Recording and Editing Sound

In the figure above, item 1 is ____.

Ripping is a slang term that refers to the process of importing tracks from an audio CD to your computer's hard disk.

To capture musical themes from a MIDI instrument, you can use ____________________ software.

Most speech synthesizers string together basic sound units called ____.

Sound adds dimension to your computing experience.

Computers can accept and process spoken ____ using a process called speech recognition.

Audio circuitry is equipped to send ____________________ to speakers or headphones.

During the ripping process, music in CD-DA format is typically converted into a compressed format such as ____.

The technical term for ____ is digital audio extraction.

____ computers typically include a built-in microphone and speakers.

Consumer advocates argue that ripping is acceptable ____________________, whereas representatives of the music industry maintain that ripping without permission is not legal.

One ____ of MIDI music might require only 10 KB of disk space.

A set of sounds that were prerecorded as individual notes from actual instruments is called a ____________________ set.

MIDI files contain a set of instructions for synthesizing music which are called MIDI ____.

Lossy compression ratios can exceed ____.

In the figure above, you can use the menu referred to by item 2 to ____.

MIDI is suitable for instrumental music but not for vocals because of the complexity of synthesizing the human voice singing lyrics.

A sound wave provides information about a sound.

____ can theoretically produce any words or phrases-not just those you have recorded.

Audio circuitry is typically equipped to accept output from a microphone and send input to speakers or headphones.