Audification

Audification is an auditory display technique for representing a sequence of data values as sound. By definition, it is described as a "direct translation of a data waveform to the audible domain."[1] Audification interprets a data sequence and usually a time series, as an audio waveform where input data are mapped to sound pressure levels. Various signal processing techniques are used to assess data features. The technique allows the listener to hear periodic components as frequencies. Audification typically requires large data sets with periodic components.[2]

Audification is most commonly applied to get the most direct and simple representation of data from sound and to convert it into a visual. In most cases it will always be used for taking sounds and breaking it down in a way that we can visually understand it and construct more data from it.

  1. ^ Dean, Roger (2009). The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 321. ISBN 9780195331615.
  2. ^ Hermann, T. & Ritter, H. (2004), "Sound and meaning in auditory data display" (PDF), Proceedings of the IEEE, 92 (4), IEEE: 730–741, doi:10.1109/jproc.2004.825904, S2CID 12354787