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"Remember cassettes? If you’re old enough, you might remember dropping one into
a player, only to have it screech at you when you pressed “play”. We’ve fixed
that problem. But why would we bother?
Before the iPod came along, people recorded their favourite tunes straight from
the radio. Some of us made home recordings with our sibling and grandparents –
precious childhood snippets.
And a few of us even have recordings from that time we travelled to a village
in Vanuatu, some 40 years ago, and heard the locals performing in a language
that no longer exists.
In the field of linguistics, such recordings are beyond priceless – yet often
out of reach, due to the degradation of old cassettes over time. With a new
tool, we are able to repair those tapes, and in doing so can recover the
stories, songs and memories they hold."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
