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<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi all,</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Was
browsing through Twitter and the BBC R&D labs the other
day and came across this:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/Audiograms/">http://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/Audiograms/</a></font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Audiograms</b>
(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.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Just an
interesting little toy, developed for social media, but could
be used anywhere where distribution is boosted by having a
visual medium.<br>
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<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">It seems
~fairly~ robust, though the existing version of the software
will only let you create an audiogram of up to 5 minutes long.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fun to
play with, though.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Cal.<br>
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