Preface: This site explains the use of audio content on the Internet...

Why Audio? - The Importance of Sound on the Internet

• Internet Use and Growth
• Role of Audio on the Internet
  • Telephony
  • Broadcasting
  • Teleconferencing
• Audio as an Interface to The Computer
  • Introduction to Human-Computer Interface Design
  • Sound as an Interface to The World
  • Sound in The Human-Computer Interface
  • Foreseeable Difficulties

Techniques - How audio material is used on the Internet

• File Formats of Digital Audio Files
  • Word Length
  • Sampling Frequency
  • Linear and Logorithmic Representation of Dynamics
    • Demonstration of difference
  • Channels
  • Audio Compression
  • File Format Examples
• Transmission of Digital Audio Files
  • Conventional Transfer
  • Real-time Transfer
• File Compression

The Future - Future audio and Internet developments

• Spatialized Audio
• Perception-Based Compression (Perceptual Coding)
• Client-Server Systems
  • The NetSound Project
  • Java

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