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A sound bite or soundbite [1] [2] is a short clip of speech or music extracted from a longer piece of audio, often used to promote or exemplify the full length piece. In the context of journalism, a sound bite is characterized by a short phrase or sentence that captures the essence of what the speaker was trying to say, and is used to summarize information and entice the reader or viewer.
Sound Bytes is the title of a weekly program that airs on WGMC, a Rochester, New York radio station. It can be heard Saturdays starting at noon Eastern Time , and lasts approximately two hours. The name is a play on words of the words sound bite and byte .
John C. Dvorak (/ ˈ d v ɔːr æ k /; born 1952) is an American writer and broadcaster in the areas of technology and personal computing. [1] He has been a columnist for multiple magazines since the 1980s and has written or co-authored over a dozen how-to books on software and technology.
Thanks to MusikAnimal, we can now check Wikimedia Commons to find ogg, midi, and flac files that are not yet listed in these sound lists, in connection with composers who are listed at list of composers by name. The bot's output for October 2015 is in its userspace, and all of the new files have been added to the sound lists, as of October 2015.
A RIFF file is a tagged file format. It has a specific container format (a chunk) with a header that includes a four-character tag and the size (number of bytes) of the chunk. The tag specifies how the data within the chunk should be interpreted, and there are several standard FourCC tags.
What is a 'sound byte'?. Even that far back, they were debating this. Actual usage of the time according to the same archive appeared to give a slight edge to "sound bite". I lived in the '80s when this term first started becoming popular, and it was at least as common to spell it "sound-byte" as it was "sound bite".
Dr. Sbaitso was distributed with various sound cards manufactured by Creative Technology in the early 1990s. The text-to-speech engine used is a version of Monologue, which was developed by First Byte Software. [2] Monologue is a later release of First Byte's "SmoothTalker" software from 1984. [3]
Jeff Broadbent is an American multimedia composer, musician, and music producer. He has won several Hollywood Music in Media Awards and a G.A.N.G. Award for composing music for video games including PlanetSide 2, Resident Evil 3, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, among others.