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Speak directly into your PC with DictationPro speech-to-text
I didn’t expect to see it, but here it is: a freeware speech recognition software, and a good one at that.
DictationPro is a full-fledged speech-to-text software that can recognize words spoken through a microphone with a high degree of accuracy. It … Continue reading
fre:ac – free audio converter
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Continue reading
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Freac: powerful audio converter and CD ripper, optimized for multi-core PCs
While there are many free programs that can rip CD’s and perform audio file conversions, many of them do not support multi-core processing. For most modern PC’s this means that the software does not utilize the full processing power of your machine… Continue reading
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Binary Beat
Listen to the beat of a binary counter! Binary Beat from Niklas Roy on Vimeo. This is an experiment, where I count one byte up – from 00000000 to 11111111. Decimal spoken, this is from 0 to 255. I have … Continue reading
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The story behind the Portal end song
Jonathan Coulton, the writer of “Still Alive”, the memorable end song for Portal, gives us the story behind the song. You may already be familiar with Jonathan’s previous songs, like Code Monkey. Portal is one of the most brilliant games … Continue reading
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Code Monkey
This is a great song by Jonathan Coulton. Check out the video by spiffworld on YouTube: Thing a Week 29 – Code Monkey (via net@nite podcast) YouTube video
Find out if you’re tone deaf
Take this online test to see how well you can distinguish musical pitches and tones. While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, I developed a quick online way to screen for the … Continue reading
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Animusic – Pipe Dream
This is one of the coolest 3D animations I’ve seen. From the first Animusic DVD. Pipe Dream has been voted one of the 50 greatest animation projects ever (by 3D World magazine). A group of percussion instruments perform music by … Continue reading
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Airtap! guitar solo
This is an impressive video of a guitar solo with an interesting playing style. Link (via Digg)
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Music video made with 2,500 Polaroids
This is an innovative idea for a music video. It was apparently created with 2,500 Polaroids. Link (via Digg)
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What Happened To Dynamic Range?
This article explains why current CDs are not taking full advantage of their digital medium, and in fact are sounding worse and worse. Then, one day we awoke to a new technology. It was called “digital recording.” Wow, now with … Continue reading
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A Cello Rondo in 37 parts
This is quite an entertaining music video of one man playing all 37 parts of a song using only his cello. I thought it would be a fun project to write and record a pop tune using nothing but cellos, … Continue reading
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Altoids Zen Micro Case
This is a brilliant idea. Someone figured out that the Creative Zen Micro fits perfectly inside an Altoids mint tin. Just drill a hole for the headphone jack and you’re set! If you like, you can also cut holes for … Continue reading
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The DIY Wireless Music Player
Nathan True has hacked together a wireless music player using a Netgear WGT634U wireless router. It might be hard to locate the Netgear router since it has been discontinued, but still a nice hack. The Mission When I began this … Continue reading
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The DooM Remix Project | The Dark Side of Phobos
This incredible album is a collection of mp3 remixes based on the soundtrack for the original DooM game (not the movie!). Hangarmageddon, Industrial Strength and Mystery Meat are some of my favorites. But Darkness Dawning just blows me away. Wicked … Continue reading
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