Optimizing the Aural Experience on Android Devices with xHE-AAC
By Phill Williams and Vijay Gondi Introduction At Netflix, we are passionate about delivering great audio to our members. We began streaming 5.1 channel surround sound Read More
Category: Audio
Navigating Recorder Transcripts Easily, with Smart Scrolling
Posted by Itay Inbar, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research Last year we launched Recorder, a new kind of recording app that made audio recording smarter Read More
The Machine Learning Behind Hum to Search
Posted by Christian Frank, Google Research, Zürich Melodies stuck in your head, often referred to as “earworms,” are a well-known and sometimes irritating phenomenon — Read More
High Performance Web Audio with AudioWorklet in Firefox
Audio Worklets arrive in Firefox AudioWorklet was first introduced to the web in 2018. Ever since, Mozilla has been investigating how to deliver a “no-compromises” Read More
Improving Audio Quality in Duo with WaveNetEQ
Posted by Pablo Barrera, Software Engineer, Google Research and Florian Stimberg, Research Engineer, DeepMind Online calls have become an everyday part of life for millions Read More
The On-Device Machine Learning Behind Recorder
Posted by Itay Inbar and Nir Shemy, Software Engineers, Google Research Over the past two decades, Google has made information widely accessible through search — Read More
DeepSpeech 0.6: Mozilla’s Speech-to-Text Engine Gets Fast, Lean, and Ubiquitous
The Machine Learning team at Mozilla continues work on DeepSpeech, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine which aims to make speech recognition technology and trained Read More
SPICE: Self-Supervised Pitch Estimation
Posted by Marco Tagliasacchi, Research Scientist, Google Research A sound’s pitch is a qualitative measure of its frequency, where a sound with a high pitch Read More
Audio and Visual Quality Measurement using Fréchet Distance
Posted by Kevin Kilgour, Software Engineer and Thomas Unterthiner, Research Software Engineer, Google Research, Zürich “I often say that when you can measure what you Read More
How to Create a Webcam Audio Visualizer with Three.js
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create an interesting looking audio visualizer that also takes input from the web camera. The result is a Read More