Structured Audio (SA) is an MPEG 4 Audio standard for algorithmic sound encoding, using the programming language SAOL. The paper describes a SA decoder, sfront, that translates a SAOL program into a C program, which is then compiled and executed to create audio. Performance data shows a 7.6x to 20.4x speedup compared to the SA reference MPEG decoder.

PURPOSE To create and test an audio-visual (AV) aid for providing anticipatory guidance on infant oral health to caregivers. METHODS A DVD-video containing evidence-based information about infant oral health care and prevention in accordance with the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry guidelines has been developed (www.utoronto.ca/dentistry/newsresources/kids/). It contains comprehensive...

I recently completed my Master’s thesis in Music Technology, which focused on creating an Interactive Audio Continuator (IAC) (Lal, 2014). The Continuator is an interactive music system proposed by (Pachet, 2002), which automatically learns musical patterns from MIDI information using Variable-Length Markov Chains (VLMC). A user is then allowed to interact with the learned patterns in order to ...

io fed b ck ⎪ S u m m er 2006 69 As the North American population continues to age, cognitive decline in older adults is becoming an ever-growing concern. Aging is accompanied by a decrease in cerebral blood flow, slowing of the brain’s alpha rhythm, and increased theta activity. These changes correlate with cognitive decline—spanning memory, problem-solving ability, difficulty with language, a...

This work contributes to the multimedia security fields by given that more protected steganography technique which ensures message confidentiality and integrity. An Advanced Least Significant Bit (ALSB) technique is presented in order to meet audio steganography requirements, which are imperceptibility, capacity, and robustness. An extensive evaluation study was conducted measuring the performa...

In an effort to understand, experience and prove the benefits of automated SoC design, this report describes the specification modeling, design space exploration and implementation of a real world example using SpecC based System on Chip Environment (SCE). The report covers a complete description of developing the specification model of a MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) audio decoder in SpecC language and...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effectiveness of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) audio prompts in an automatic external defibrillator in 24 lay subjects, before and after CPR training. METHODS Untrained subjects were asked to perform CPR on a manikin with and without the assistance of audio prompts. All subjects were then trained in CPR, and retested them eight weeks later. RESULTS Untr...

Seeing the talker improves the intelligibility of speech degraded by noise (a visual speech enhancement effect). This experiment examined whether this enhancement is greater when the speech signals were recorded in noise compared to when they were recorded in quiet. Ten sentences were spoken by four people either in-quiet or whilst they were listening to cocktail party noise (in-noise). The vis...

BACKGROUND Skin to skin contact (SSC) at birth is the standard of care for newborns without risk factors. However, implementation of SSC at birth has been far from optimal. A qualitative study was undertaken to determine the barriers, enablers and potential solutions to implementation of SSC at birth in healthy newborn infants in a level III neonatal-care facility in Bangalore, India. METHODS...

Audio is an integral component of multimedia services in intelligent environments. Use of multiple channels in audio capturing and rendering offers the advantage of recreating arbitrary acoustic environments, immersing the listener into the acoustic scene. On the other hand, multichannel audio contains a large degree of information which is highly demanding to transmit, especially for real-time...