noCreativity.com » microphone http://nocreativity.com The life and discoveries of a new media artist Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:03:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Open Microphone PT 2 http://nocreativity.com/blog/open-microphone-pt-2 http://nocreativity.com/blog/open-microphone-pt-2#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:07:55 +0000 Ronny http://nocreativity.com/blog/?p=722 microphoneOnly a few weeks back, Mike Chambers demonstrated the open microphone at FOTB in Brighton. At the time him and Lee weren’t allowed to say anything more specific on the topic, regarding if this will be available in the Flash Player as well. Most of us kinda figured and Adobe didn’t disappoint. At Adobe Max it was made official. Flash Player 10.1 will support the open microphone.

What is Open Microphone??
‘Open microphone’ is the term used to refer to the ability to access the raw sounddata recorded from a microphone instance in the Flash Player. Untill now this was only possible if you bounced the soundstream off the server (using Flash Media Server/RED5).

What’s so special about this?
You’ll be able to draw the soundspectrum of the microphone, you’ll be able to record the data as a bytearray and save it as a MP4 files / WAV file / whatever file to the server, you’ll be able to analyze the sound for specific words an build a Flash-driven droid that only listens to your voice and help you take over the world. Anything you want. Sky’s the limit. Go nuts.

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]]> http://nocreativity.com/blog/open-microphone-pt-2/feed 0 Microphone Analyzing http://nocreativity.com/blog/microphone-analyzing http://nocreativity.com/blog/microphone-analyzing#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:22:12 +0000 Ronny http://nocreativity.com/blog/?p=714 [ Link ] – These are basically the same as the soundAnalyzing experiments but now they’re running off the mic.activityLevel

]]> http://nocreativity.com/blog/microphone-analyzing/feed 1 Open Microphone pt 1 http://nocreativity.com/blog/open-microphone-pt-1 http://nocreativity.com/blog/open-microphone-pt-1#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:10:04 +0000 Ronny http://nocreativity.com/blog/?p=669 mikerophoneIf you’ve come by here a few times you know I have been experimenting with computeSpectrum and webcam motion detection. At a given moment I wanted to combine the 2 of them in order to use voice commands in order to make stuff happen on the screen. That would be pretty badass, right?

However I soon learned the microphone feed didn’t go through the SoundMixer of the Flash Player, therefor would would not be able to be analyzed. There was a workaround with FMS/RED5 and bouncing the stream off the server but that’s rather overkill (not to mention the lag).

However…
Mike Chambers and Lee Brimelow were in Paris the other day where they demoed/demo’ed/demo-ed (how the hell do you spell that word??) a few new features of the upcoming AIR release. If you don’t already know, you’ll probably have guessed it by now but (just to be crystal clear): The microphone is accesible for computeSpectrum in the AIR runtime. Check out the demo on Lee’s blog :)

Lee stated on his blog he couldn’t talk about this feature being brought to the Flash Player, but I’m pretty confident Adobe will do so ;)
Even though I’m not much of an AIR developer, I like the idea of having access to both microphone and camera… I can image a few cool applications using those features… :-D

By the way: If you don’t already know: there’s a great site with all kinds of intresting articles on the subject. If you’re interested, make sure to check it out: getMicrophone().

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