Sonic Sunday — 12/26/2021

Here are a few items on matters sonic -- voice, sound and audio -- that I hope you will find interesting. As always, wee would love to hear from you.  To sign up for a free Witlingo account, please go here.

1. Announcements:

• We are gearing up to begin onboarding our first Beta clients who wish to create and mint audio NFTs right from Witling.  If you are interested in participating, please go here.
• In case you missed it, we are happy to announce that the Witlingo 3.0 platform is now genetrally available.  Please go here for the full release notes.
• On Lingofest next week, we will be publishing Part One of our two part interview with the man behind the Amazon Echo's speech system, Jeff Adams.

2. Worth a read:

• Aural sculpture – next year brands will shape virtual sounds of the future
• Is the Metaverse the New Metaphysics?
• Digital Disruptions: Past, Present, and Yet to Come….

3. Worth listening to: Musical Logos: An Interview With Rajeev Raja – Part 1

4. Worth watching: The latest episode of Lingofest.  This week, it's Part Two if our interview wiith Prof. Roger K. Moore, Chair of Spoken Language Processing at The University of Sheffield.  For previous episodes of Lingofest, please go here.

5. Poll of the Week: "By 2030, which of the following technologies will have gone the most mainstream (i.e., we would start wondering how we got along otherwise)?"

Guess the movie: And now for some fun! Can you tell what movie this is just from the audio? Go here and try it out.

• The answer to last week's movie is: Dog Day Afternoon. We have received several responses, but no one was able to guess it.  Let's hope this week will be an easier one.

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