The Manual Labor of Digital Audio: Sample Editing

Author(s):  
Wallace Jackson
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Biaoli Tao ◽  
Rangding Wang ◽  
Diqun Yan ◽  
Chao Jin

The widespread availability of audio editing software has made it easy to create acoustically convincing digital audio forgeries. To address this problem, more and more attention has been paid to the field of digital audio forensics. There has been little work, however, in the field of anti-forensics, which seeks to develop a set of techniques designed to fool current forensic methodologies. The compression history of an audio sample can be used to provide evidence of audio forgeries. In this work, we present a simple method for distinguishing the MP3 compression history of an audio sample. We show the proposed anti-forensics method to remove the artifacts of MP3 double compression by destroying the audio frame structure. In addition, effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by three double compression detection methods. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively resist detection from three methods.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1589-1594
Author(s):  
Yvonne van Zaalen ◽  
Isabella Reichel

Purpose Among the best strategies to address inadequate speech monitoring skills and other parameters of communication in people with cluttering (PWC) is the relatively new but very promising auditory–visual feedback (AVF) training ( van Zaalen & Reichel, 2015 ). This study examines the effects of AVF training on articulatory accuracy, pause duration, frequency, and type of disfluencies of PWC, as well as on the emotional and cognitive aspects that may be present in clients with this communication disorder ( Reichel, 2010 ; van Zaalen & Reichel, 2015 ). Methods In this study, 12 male adolescents and adults—6 with phonological and 6 with syntactic cluttering—were provided with weekly AVF training for 12 weeks, with a 3-month follow-up. Data was gathered on baseline (T0), Week 6 (T1), Week 12 (T2), and after follow-up (T3). Spontaneous speech was recorded and analyzed by using digital audio-recording and speech analysis software known as Praat ( Boersma & Weenink, 2017 ). Results The results of this study indicated that PWC demonstrated significant improvements in articulatory rate measurements and in pause duration following the AVF training. In addition, the PWC in the study reported positive effects on their ability to retell a story and to speak in more complete sentences. PWC felt better about formulating their ideas and were more satisfied with their interactions with people around them. Conclusions The AVF training was found to be an effective approach for improving monitoring skills of PWC with both quantitative and qualitative benefits in the behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and social domains of communication.


ASHA Leader ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 19-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Snyder ◽  
Peter Reitzes ◽  
Eric Jackson
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IEE Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Price

IEE Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Edward C. Forster

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (98) ◽  
pp. 406-410
Author(s):  
O. Rybalsky ◽  
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V. Soloviev ◽  
Lidiya Tymoshenko ◽  
V. Zhuravel ◽  
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Author(s):  
Richard E. Ocejo

In today's new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual-labor occupations as careers. This book looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. The book takes readers into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into “cool” and highly specialized upscale occupational niches—and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. It shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of “cultural repertoires,” which include technical skills based on a renewed sense of craft and craftsmanship and an ability to understand and communicate that knowledge to others, resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. The book describes the paths people take to these jobs, how they learn their chosen trades, how they imbue their work practices with craftsmanship, and how they teach a sense of taste to their consumers. The book provides new insights into the stratification of taste, gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today's postindustrial city.


Author(s):  
A. V. Kapustina ◽  
V. V. Elizarova ◽  
O. V. Bykova

The results of the production studies of professional groups of manual labor (stone saws, packers, slingers) are presented. It is shown that a change in the functional state of the body of workers leads to the development of fatigue and overstrain of the body systems of workers.


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