[cma-l] BBC/NYPR: Audiogram

[Cal McLean]

Hi all,

Was browsing through Twitter and the BBC R&D labs the other day and came 
across this:
http://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/Audiograms/

*Audiograms* (developed by NY Public Radio, being experimented with by 
BBC News/BBC World Service) is a way of turning soundbites into 
appealing videos by displaying the waveform of the audio playing. The 
idea is that audio tends to be a second-class citizen on social media, 
while videos tend to be first-class - often autoplaying in Facebook 
Timelines and Twitter feeds, but on mute. The waveform shows that there 
is audio playing that the user may wish to engage with.

Just an interesting little toy, developed for social media, but could be 
used anywhere where distribution is boosted by having a visual medium.

It seems ~fairly~ robust, though the existing version of the software 
will only let you create an audiogram of up to 5 minutes long.

Fun to play with, though.

Cal.

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