Audio

Ever use a headset with Skype – and were frustrated that it was too quiet? This article shows how to add the sound of your own voice to the headset and not feel exhausted from shouting to be heard. Skype: I find your lack of feedback disturbing. This article will discuss how to build a software…

Kim Major is working on a rather neat item for Visual Studio.  He is working on using speech recognition to program with Visual Studio! They are looking for some feedback and if you want to, please post some over here.

Pete Brown brought along some fun toys to MIX09 written in the Silverlight 3 Beta which he demonstrates in this video.  The first toy is a Commodore64 emulator running print commands and the Dr. Who game.  The second toy, or in this case maybe tool would be more applicable, is his…

Mark Heath (of NAudio fame) recently published a how-to article for Coding4Fun that shows how he plugged into Skype's audio APIs to dynamically apply different sound effects to the audio stream to mask your voice. To see it in action, we setup a Skype connection between me and…

In this article I demonstrate how you can create your own audio effects in .NET to manipulate digital audio at the sample level. These effects are used to process MP3 files while they are being played back, and to process the real-time microphone input allowing you to change your voice during a…

The great Larry Osterman discusses what excites him most about Windows 7's new audio features. Of course, we talk about all things audio as Larry is a 24 year veteran of Microsoft and best known as the developer who makes Windows go ding.  He's also an avid blogger.

Don't let the name fool you, ButtKicker brand low frequency audio transducers are serious, award winning and patented. You haven't enjoyed your gaming or movie viewing experience until you've felt the powerful THUD of bass pounding beneath your tushy. The best part about the ButtKicker is that…

Not only does Holophone design sexy hardware devices that will make you look cool simply by association- they actually perform well. Holophone offers us surround sound audio capturing for everybody from the power user to the NFL. They make it easy and affordable for whatever your needs may be.…

Join Sukhvinder Singh Gulati, Sr. Lead Program Manager, for a first look at Microsoft's newest unified communications solutions. Sukhvinder will discuss products like Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator 2007, Office Live Meeting 2007, Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging,…

Ultimate Ears personal monitors brings you music the way it was meant to be heard. Used by musicians across the globe its unbelievable the superior sound quality that these tiny little devise can bring you. With so much technology packed into a tiny little punch I decided I had to see how it was…