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AUDIO MEDIA
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Learn more about audio media.
Media Formats
An audio format is a medium for storing sound and music. The term is applied to both the physical recording media and the recording formats of the audio content – in computer science it is often limited to the audio file format, but its wider use usually refers to the physical method used to store the data.
Music is recorded and distributed using a variety of audio formats, some of which store additional information.
For a more detailed discussion, please refer to the additional info page.
- "Inexpensive, simple to use, and can present stimulating verbal messages more dramatically than the print.”
- There are portable devices than can be used even outside the classroom or workplace.
- They can easily be easily duplicated if needed.
As for the speaker, he/she should have:
- A clear voice
- The right intonation and pitch during delivery
- A good volume of voice
- The appropriate use of language
Important things to consider when selecting an audio file:
- Volume: Is the loudness/softness of an audio file. It should be audible for our audiences to hear it. Not too loud to hurt our ears and too soft that nobody could barely hear it.
- Pitch: High pitch audio file is hard to understand and is hurtful to the ears. Normal pitch should be used.
- Pace: The audio file should not be too fast that no one can understand a thing.
- Background: Should have no fuzzy sound or echo.
Advantages/Limitations
Media Characteristics
Advantages:
- It employs audio delivery of learning material to teach students
- It also allow listeners to concentrate on content and to create their own corresponding images.
- Enhances learning of verbal information:
a) ideal for language teaching (first and second language)
b) useful for those who have reading difficulties
- Frequently used in rhythmic activities i.e. aerobics
- Very portable and accessible
- Effective for language learning
- Reproducible
- Repeatable
- Easily prepared after first recordings
Limitations:
- It reproduce only one aspect of events, their physical vibration, which may be heard or felt.
- Not conducive to visual information
- Impersonal and does not monitor attention
- Setting a pace is difficult
- Fixed sequence – difficulty in scanning audio material versus printed text materials
- Potential for accidental erasure and tape overs