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  2. Portable media player - Wikipedia

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    MP3 was introduced as an audio coding standard in 1992. [30] It was based on several audio data compression techniques, including the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT), FFT and psychoacoustic methods. [31] MP3 became a popular standard format and as a result most digital audio players after this supported it and hence were often called ...

  3. Digital-to-analog converter - Wikipedia

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    For instance, a 1-bit DAC is designed to reproduce 2 (2 1) levels while an 8-bit DAC is designed for 256 (2 8) levels. Resolution is related to the effective number of bits which is a measurement of the actual resolution attained by the DAC. Resolution determines color depth in video applications and audio bit depth in audio applications.

  4. Speech synthesis - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 January 2025. Artificial production of human speech Automatic announcement A synthetic voice announcing an arriving train in Sweden. Problems playing this file? See media help. Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech ...

  5. Second audio program - Wikipedia

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    On analog television receive-only satellite television systems, audio programs are manually tuned by their subcarrier frequency, commonly around 6 MHz, often as low as 5.8 or as high as 7.2. These travel the same way as the discrete left and right main audio channels, and ATIS station ID , which is heard as Morse code .

  6. SAMPLE history - Wikipedia

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    The questions are most commonly used in the field of emergency medicine by first responders during the secondary assessment. It is used for alert (conscious) people, but often much of this information can also be obtained from the family or friend of an unresponsive person.

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    In practice, if you plan to get all books rather than just a handful, this would hit Amazon's servers hard (perhaps as hard as thousands of customers). They are likely to have methods in place to detect this, assume they are under attack, and block your connection temporarily or permanently.

  8. History of personal computers - Wikipedia

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    The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.

  9. Peer-to-peer - Wikipedia

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    A peer-to-peer (P2P) network in which interconnected nodes ("peers") share resources amongst each other without the use of a centralized administrative system. Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.