When it comes to audio production, one term that frequently comes up is to normalize audio. But what does this mean, and why is it critical in both music and media production? In its simplest form, ...

Abstract: In audio signal processing, learnable front-ends have shown strong performance across diverse tasks by optimizing task-specific representation. However, their parameters remain fixed once ...

Have you ever clicked on a YouTube video only to scramble for the volume knob because the ad was way louder than the content? Or noticed how one podcast sounds quiet while another blasts your speakers ...

tl;dr the current normalization formula is only marginally helpful to songs under -6dB and kinda sucks for everything else. If the point of normalization is to provide a more consistent listening ...

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When Apple introduced “spatial audio” to Apple Music and the AirPods family, it quickly became a bigger buzzword in audio discussions. In just a few years, it has become ubiquitous. This popularity ...

YouTube Music is getting a new “Consistent volume” normalization option. The main YouTube app has had its own “stable volume” tool for a couple years now. The setting has started showing up on both ...

AI training and inference are all about running data through models — typically to make some kind of decision. But the paths that the calculations take aren’t always straightforward, and as a model ...