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Lesson 14 – Audio Media
Early History Pre- 1920’s
Phonograph – invented by Thomas Edison
(1877)
- First recording device
Carbon Microphone – invented by Thomas
Edison (1877)
- First recording device
Gramophone – invented by Emil Beliner
- Used a platter instead of a cylinder for
recording
Early History 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s
Magnetic Recording – Cassette Tape
Digital Recording – Compact Disc
What is Audio Media?
- Audio Formats
- May refer to analog tape cassettes
and digital CDs as well as to
computer files containing audio in
any number of digital formats.
- Audio media was founded in 1994 as
a digital recording studio by T.
Selvakumar, a well-known musician
and personality in the Indian Film
industry. It then branched on to sales,
further on in 2002, as an education
providing Apple Certified courses.
About Audio
The range of frequencies within human being
hearing, which is approximately 20Hz at the
low end to a high of 20,000Hz. However,
pundits (experts) claim that some people can
hear higher frequencies.
Two Types of Audio:
Analog – traditional audio devise is analog,
because they handle sound waves in an
analogous form. For example, radios
maintain the audio signal as rippling waves
from antenna to speaker. Tape cassette
players record sound waves as magnetic
waves. In the days of the phonograph record,
sound waves were literally “carved” into the
plastic platters.
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Digital – in the computer, audio is processed
by converting the analog signal into a digital
codes using PCM (phase change memory).
Kinds of Audio Media
1. Radio Broadcast which can be live or
taped.
2. Recordings
Characteristics of Audio Media
- Ideal for extending voice and music
- Costs are relatively inexpensive
(composed to video)
- Good for the less literate (or aural
learners/auditory learners)
- Good for stimulating listener’s
imagination
- Good for evoking emotional
responses
Telephone; Voicemail
- Low cost (can be expensive based on
distance
- Easy to use
- Has feedback feature
- Length may be limited
- May involve toll charges
Audiotape; Digital audio; Compact
disks
- Inexpensive (costs are not related to
distance)
- Easily accessible
- Easily duplicated
- Require specific device
- Hard to modify the recording once
produced and distributed.
Audio Conference (Teleconferencing)
- Easy to set up
- Has feedback feature
- Remove distance constraint
- Requires specific device
- Challenging to schedule a time when
everyone can participate
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Lesson 14 – Audio Media A.Y. 22-23

Types of Audio Media APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION

Cassette Tape 1. Can be used to improve listening
Advantages: skills
 Reusable 2. Enhances learning for verbal
 Economical information
 Easy to use 3. An ideal way for teaching foreign
 Requires little storage space language
 Portable 4. Useful tool for hose w/ regarding
Disadvantages: disabilities or non-readers
 Prone to noise 5. Can be used for recording interviews
Advantages:
 Easily tangled
 Readily available and simple to use
 Poor frequency response
 Portable
 Degrades after too much reusing
 Easy to reproduce
 Sensitive to magnets, breakage and
heat.  Inexpensive
Compact Disks  Resistant to damage
Advantages: Disadvantages:
 Durable than a cassette tape  Pacing cannot be changed because
 No background noise audio media follows a fixed sequence
Audio Books
 Higher audio quality
A recording of a book or magazine being
 Portable
read, first known use was in 1953 a recording
 Larger storage space of a text being read
Disadvantages
Podcast
 Prone to scratches and damaged if not A converged medium bringing together
stored properly audio, the web and portable media player a
 Requires special drives to read and program (as of music or talk) made available
write in digital format for automatic download over
MP3 (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Audio layer 3) the internet.
- Refers to technology that records, Internet radio broadcast
stores and reproduces sound by An audio service transmitted via the internet
encoding an audio signal in a digital usually referred to s webcasting since it is not
instead of analog transmitted broadly through wireless means.
Advantages:
 High quality of audio files
 Use of multiple channels for the
sound
 Files do not degrade
 Easily distributed
 Can be played on multiple devices
Disadvantages:
 Easy file sharing may lead to
copyright infringement.