Listeners sometimes look quizzically at me when I observe that while there is much good journalism on NPR, there is often not enough good "radio." NPR journalists understand what I mean. But too ...

The vocoder is designed to decode human sounds only and convert them to a digital output, filtering out any non-human background noise–as long as the voice isn’t overwhelmed by the background ...

Sounds of the Past: Vintage Radios. ... World War II you could imagine, you could hear the bombs going off in the background when Edward R. Murrow was broadcasting from London. ...

Explicit, passive, implicit, 360 degree processing of every sound that enters our ears is radio’s “trifecta”. Not a bad subject to be familiar with when faced with the “background ...

A Century Of Sound Part 2 - As radio flourished in the 1920s and 30s, a new concept of national broadcasting was born. Today, a look at the birth of the networks as we commemorate the centennial ...

Learning can be impaired by distracting background sounds. That is why teachers generally encourage students to study in quiet environments. Children, however, like extra stimulation when studying ...