Using acoustic structure in a hand-held audio playback device

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 453-472

  Schmandt, C ^a,b,c   Roy, D ^a,c,d  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b MIT

^c Media Laboratory

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; AUDIO EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STEREOPHONIC RECORDINGS; USER INTERFACES;

ACOUSTICAL CUES; DIGITAL AUDIO; HAND HELD AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICE; INTERVIEW PROGRAMS; NEWSCOMM; RADIO NEWS; VOICE DOCUMENTS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0030415219     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.353.0453     Document Type: Article

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