Audio Glossary

Browse 17 audio terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

17 Audio Terms

Audio API
An application programming interface used to capture, process, generate, analyze, or play audio data. Audio APIs can expose low-level buffers and timing...
Audio Diffusion
A generative audio approach that learns to denoise signals until realistic sound samples emerge. It influences how models are trained, evaluated, or served,...
Audio Processing
The manipulation or analysis of audio data through operations such as filtering, resampling, mixing, compression, silence detection, feature extraction, or...
Audio Programming
Programming focused on sound synthesis, audio processing, sequencing, effects, or music software. In developer culture, audio programming sits at the...
Multimodal
Multimodal in AI describes systems that can process, understand, and generate content across multiple types of input and output, such as text, images, audio,...
Multimodal Model
A model that can process or generate across more than one data type, such as text, images, audio, or video.
PipeWire
A multimedia server for Linux intended to handle audio and video routing in a modern unified way.
Speech Recognition
Speech Recognition is an application task where a model extracts structured meaning or predictions from raw input. It is commonly used for NLP and vision...
Speech Synthesis
Speech Synthesis is a generative modeling concept for producing new content such as text, images, audio, or video. It is commonly used for creative tools,...
Speech-to-Text
Speech-to-Text is an AI or ML concept used to represent, train, evaluate, or deploy learned systems. It is commonly used for building production models and...
Text-to-Speech
Text-to-Speech is an AI or ML concept used to represent, train, evaluate, or deploy learned systems. It is commonly used for building production models and...
Voice Activity Detection
Voice Activity Detection is an application task where a model extracts structured meaning or predictions from raw input. It is commonly used for NLP and vision...
Voice Cloning
Voice Cloning is an AI or ML concept used to represent, train, evaluate, or deploy learned systems. It is commonly used for building production models and...
Voice Recognition
Voice Recognition is an application task where a model extracts structured meaning or predictions from raw input. It is commonly used for NLP and vision...
Web Audio API
A high-level browser API for processing, synthesizing, and analyzing audio in real time by connecting AudioNode objects into a directed graph — from sources...
Whisper
Whisper is a speech recognition model family trained on large-scale multilingual audio transcription data. It is commonly used for automatic transcription,...
Worklet
A lightweight, low-latency script execution context in the browser that runs on a dedicated thread — used by the CSS Paint API (PaintWorklet), Audio Worklet...

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