Using Audio On Your Website – A Two Way Street

Audio can captivate your customers and increase sales, but it must be used properly or it will have adverse affects.

Digital Audio Compression

Digitisation creates a raw digital music file which is at least 30MB for a 3 minute song. Such a file has to be compressed to the more usual levels of 3-5MB per song. This article explains the terminology you need to understand when buying your mp3 player/stereo.

Online Audio Books – The Advantages of Downloading Your Audio Book

With online audio books in digital format, you will get the audio books instantly. You do not have to wait for them to arrive in the mail, pay the higher cost, pay for shipping, or only have the ability to listen to them in certain places. You have the convenience of listening when you want to and where you want to.

Audio Books: An Amazing Story

Audio books have been around for approximately seventy years, and today their popularity has grown enormously, due to their convenience in our fast-track lives. You can download audio books from the internet, and that makes them more convenient and appealing than ever before.

Talking Audiobooks - Beneficial, Economical And A Great Entertainment Source

Have you tried listening to talking audio books? You could be saving money and saving time while you are being entertained. There are many benefits that apply when you listen to audiobooks, some may be surprising.

New Laws Affect Internet Broadcasters And Others

The changes in royalty payments that passed through congress today threaten to remove the majority of broadcasters from the internet due to costs of operation.

Audio Streaming for Your Web Site

When online audio first became available, it was available only in form of discrete files that took up a lot of space. The size of your message was limited. This was especially true in the days before 1GB RAM become commonplace. There was a time when a home computer was restricted to 16KB. However did we manage! Yet 48K was high tech in those days. Customers would not download files just to hear your sales message, so it was dead before it hit the water. Now, however, we have streaming audio, and file size is no longer a problem. The sound file is streamed over the internet in packets that are replayed ....

Finding Affordable Transcription for Interviews, Focus Groups, Conferences and More

You may have been conducting research interviews, focus groups, market research, but whatever your reason for recording conversations you'll be looking for an affordable transcription service. There are many transcription services available but sometimes an affordable transcription service can seem hard to find.

Transcription - Get Digital Recording Equipment That's Right For Your Needs

This article aims to inform you on the different features available for recorders, what they're for and how the will (or won't) be of use to you, as someone who is recording for transcription. The different features are first listed and then explained, and this should allow you to choose a machine that's right for you to record your transcription recordings and send them to your transcriptionist. As any visit to a good website or shop selling these machines will show you, this is not a comprehensive list. It's a list of the most important aspects from a transcription point of view.

Audio Streaming Benefits - How Does It Benefit Your Web Site?

Audio streaming makes a visit to your website seem more personal while it explains your product or service. Most importantly audio streaming sets your web site apart from the other sites on the net. Adding this feature to your website can be one of the simplest things that you can do to convert hits to sales. There are a variety of places you can go to get inexpensive or even free audio features for your web site. But is it really worth it? Let us take a look. It Makes it Personal Adding audio streaming to your website creates a personal connection and bond between you and your customer. If you create ...

Conference Call Transcript Service - Your Modern Secretary

Conference calls are a great tool for sharing information, teaching, and learning for companies and individuals alike. However, it is not always easy to get everyone together, or to remember everything that was said or covered even if you were on the call. Audio recordings are wonderful for this, but sometimes it is just easier to be able to read what was said so you need to provide transcripts for your conference call. You can do this transcription yourself, have someone in your company do it, or you can outsource it. Here are some things to keep in mind when looking for a conference call transcription service.

The Fight Continues Between Internet Radio and the Copyright Royalty Board

As both sides rally for public opinion the battle rages on between webcasters and the Copyright Royalty Board over rate increases.

Add a Silver Sheen To Your Broadcasting Happiness

The author points out the uniqueness of Internet radio as a medium and its differences from the terrestrial radio channels. While focusing on the features, he also analyzes the financial crunch that is often faced by most broadcasters and the opportunity that lies for them to monetize their Internet radio station.

Web Audio – How to Boost Website Performance by Adding Web Audio

It is clear that web audio and web video are taking the Internet by storm. Many webmasters are realizing that although it is very important to get more traffic to their websites that it is even more important to convert traffic into sales.

What Are Mp3 Files And How Can You Use Them?

While mp3 players are available with storage sizes of mere megabytes to 60GB and above, the 1GB mp3 player is a good starting point for the music enthusiast.