Audio Processing
Noise removal, audio quality, microphones, VAD
6 episodes
#2543: Base64 for Audio: What Developers Need to Know
Base64 isn’t compression — it’s a safe transport encoding. Here’s how it works with audio APIs and where its limits are.
#2486: Why Noise Reduction Can Ruin Transcription Accuracy
Cleaning audio before transcription can increase errors by up to 46%. Here's the right approach for your voice app.
#2337: How Speaker Diarization Powers Everything From Call Centers to Courts
Discover how PyAnnote and other tools tackle the critical task of identifying "who spoke when" in audio—and why it’s harder than it sounds.
#2288: The Invisible Gatekeeper of Voice Tech
How voice activity detection shapes every step of the voice tech pipeline, and why it’s harder than it seems.
#2183: Making Voice Agents Feel Natural
Turn-taking, interruptions, and latency are destroying voice AI UX—and the fixes are deeply technical. Here's what's actually happening underneath.
#1800: The Engineering of Urgent Sound
Why some sounds make your skin crawl: the science of emergency alerts.