Audio

In this article I demonstrate how to record from the microphone in .NET, with support for setting the recording level, trimming noise from the start and end, visualizing the waveform in WPF and converting to MP3. Audio Recording in .NET The .NET framework does not provide any direct support for…

For the longest time, I've been baffled by the concept of sound in computing. How in the world is sound store? How is it played back? In classic Coding4Fun style, we'll learn by doing in this article—by building a wave oscillator application. Optional Reading I cover the basics of this article in…

The guys at Cakewalk are passionate about music and providing the technology that enables audio enthusiasts & professionals to create great music. Noel Borthwick, Cakewalk CTO and Carl Jacobson, Woldwide Marketing Director, spend some time with Inside Out talking about their lessons learned as…

Welcome to the ninth installment of The Voice of Support! This week, we sat down with Steve Miles, Retail Support Manager here at Microsoft, to discuss supporting those Xbox and Xbox 360 kiosks you see in various retail stores across the world, and some of the really cool features and new…

This article will take you through some of the steps to creating the basics for writing games with Silverlight. This is a simple shooter style game that contains some of the building blocks for games that require abilities such as vectors, collision detection, a game loop, movement, and keyboard…

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,…

Welcome to the Show #11 of The Voice of Support! In this session, we sat down with Nabil Pike, Lead Program Manager for Zune Supportability. Nabil talks about the day-to-day activities of the Zune support team, his history here @ Microsoft, and the history of building the support experience …

In this geekSpeak (or maybe we should say "geekSpeech") we explore Microsoft Speech Server technologies, focusing on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. After covering how Speech Server is now incorporated into OCS 2007, we talk about how it now supports industry…

This article describes a quick and easy application to play Halloween tricks on the PC. Introduction This article describes “Gremlin”, a quick and easy application that lets you play Halloween tricks. When your victim's computer is idle, Gremlin moves windows around on the screen, changes the…

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…