Audio and Video

Stephen Hawking talking technology

I just read yesterday that famous English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author Stephen Hawking had his 73rd birthday.So this is a good time to post here some interesting links on Stephen Hawking.  Just last month there were articles that Stephen Hawking’s speech rate doubled with Intel’s new system Acat (Assistive Context Aware Toolkit). ACAT has seen Hawking

Audio and video trends 2015

MEMS mics are taking over. Almost every mobile device has ditched its old-fashioned electret microphone invented way back in 1962 at Bell Labs. Expect new piezoelectric MEMS microphones, which promise unheard of signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) of up to 80 dB (versus 65 dB in the best current capacitive microphones) in 2015. MEMS microphones are growing like