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Introduction to Web Design & Computer Principles!
CSCI-UA 4
Web Audio and Video!
HTML5 Media Elements
Digital Audio!
Analog to digital
An audio signal is an analog
(continuous) format!
The electrical waves must be
converted to digital information for
computational processing!
Digital recording is accomplished with
an analog-to-digital converter (ADC)!
The ADC captures a snapshot of the
electric voltage on an audio line and
represents it as a digital number!
Capturing the voltage thousands of
times per second creates a good
approximation of the original audio