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Dolby has been working on a new mobile app for recording and cleaning up audio under the codename “234”.
Familiar with the Brand Dolby?
It’s the Brand most of us know from going to the cinemas.
Dolby creates audio, visual, and voice technologies for cinemas, home theaters, PCs, mobile devices, and games.
The company developed a lot of groundbreaking technologies in the field of:
But the company’s success all started with the invention of the Dolby Noise Reduction System, a form of audio signal processing for reducing the background hissing sound on audio tape recordings.
All skills that come in handy when you’re trying to turn a smartphone into a recording studio.
Dolby has been working on a new mobile app for recording and cleaning up audio under the codename “234,” first brought to the attention by TechCrunch.
Unfortunately, the signup site has been deactivated. I would have loved to share some samples to discuss the quality of the app because I’m extremely curious. It almost sounds too good to be true; an audio app that cleans up the sound, gives it tone and space, and finds the ideal loudness but it definitely makes sense.
Audio content is more accessible than ever before and the opportunity to capitalize on the emergent power of audio keeps growing.
The end of unintelligible crappy recordings is near.
I know what I am going to do when I am allowed to go to cafes again. I am going to buy myself a delicious breakfast. And I’ll buy you one as well. I am going to look for 5 people. I’ll ask them to test my work. With simple questions I am going to learn about 85% of the usability problems. Not like this: Did this notification sound give you the information you needed in your experience?
“More isn’t always better, Linus. Sometimes it’s just more”. – The Movie Sabrina (1995). Do large communities add more value than smaller ones According to British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, the “magic number” is 150. His theory concludes that we can only really maintain about 150 connections at a time.
We can hardly remember a time when all of this wasn’t possible. Online communication tools and social platforms enabled us to develop bigger communities more easily. But do we achieve so much more by making everything bigger? Sometimes people tend to focus so hard on making everything bigger that they lose sight of what’s really important.
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