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Sound test. A sound test menu from Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, showing options to play sound effects and music. A sound test is a function built into the options screen of many video games. This function was originally meant to test whether the game's music and sounds would function correctly (hence the name), as well as giving the player ...
Beep (sound) A beep is a short, single tone, typically high-pitched, generally made by a computer or other machine. The term has its origin in onomatopoeia. The word "beep-beep" is recorded for the noise of a car horn in 1929, and the modern usage of "beep" for a high-pitched tone is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in 1951. [1]
Sound effect. Various acoustic devices in a Greek radio studio. Deep, pulsating digital sound effect. Voice saying "Ja", followed by the same recording with a massive digital reverb. A blackbird singing, followed by the same recording with the blackbird singing with 5 voices. A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or ...
Simon is an electronic game of short-term memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, working for toy design firm Marvin Glass and Associates, [1] with software programming by Lenny Cope. The device creates a series of tones and lights and requires a user to repeat the sequence. If the user succeeds, the series becomes ...
Macintosh startup. The Macintosh startup sequence for Apple Macintosh computers, or Macs, includes hardware tests and diagnostics which can trigger the startup chimes or other indications of startup success or failure. The startup sequence provides auditory and visual symbols of the computer's status and condition as it powers up, providing ...
Power-on self-test. A power-on self-test (POST) is a process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on. [1] POST processes may set the initial state of the device from firmware and detect if any hardware components are non-functional.
September 1, 2024 at 8:30 AM. Shutterstock. A new study examined dogs that had been "trained" with soundboard buttons, and the findings are fascinating. A study published in PLOS ONE on August 28 ...
The bleep censor is a software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician. [2] A bleep is sometimes accompanied by a digital blur pixelization or box over the speaker's mouth in cases where the removed speech may still be easily understood or not understood by lip reading. [3]