Sonic playground

In this lesson, we will revisit the digitisation process, in order to understand how the sampling rate and the sample size affect the size and quality of the representation. We will also use a sound editing program.

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Quiz:

Sonic Playground

Helps you to assess your understanding of representation size of audio files .

Q1.Samples taken in a second is called .................................

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Q2.Number of bits in each sample is called ..............

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Q3.An advantage of taking samples for every 5 minutes, instead of every 10 minutes is .................................

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Q4.One of the disadvantage of taking samples for every 5 minutes, instead of every 10 minutes is .................................

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Q5.Assume that you have a digital recording of a sound. The duration is 2 seconds. The sampling rate is 4,000 samples per second. The sample size is 2 bytes per sample. Use this information to compute the number of bytes required to represent this sound. You may need to use a calculator for this task.

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This quiz includes images that don't have any alt text - please contact your teacher who should be able to help you with an audio description.

Unit quizzes are being retired in August 2023

Why we're removing unit quizzes from the website >
Quiz:

Sonic Playground

Helps you to assess your understanding of representation size of audio files .

Q1.Samples taken in a second is called .................................

1/5

Q2.Number of bits in each sample is called ..............

2/5

Q3.An advantage of taking samples for every 5 minutes, instead of every 10 minutes is .................................

3/5

Q4.One of the disadvantage of taking samples for every 5 minutes, instead of every 10 minutes is .................................

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Q5.Assume that you have a digital recording of a sound. The duration is 2 seconds. The sampling rate is 4,000 samples per second. The sample size is 2 bytes per sample. Use this information to compute the number of bytes required to represent this sound. You may need to use a calculator for this task.

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