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Action Audio’s Sportscasts Are Like Braille For Your Ears – Digital Trends
Instead of describing the action with words, like a radio announcer might, Action Audio translates visual scenes into a series of information-dense sounds.
THWOK. Ponk. Thwok. Ponk. THWOK. PONK. Thwok. Cheering intensifies. Ponk. THWOK. The squeak of sneakers on asphalt. PONK. Pause. Enthusiastic applause.
Recognize it? Of course you dont. It is, in fact, Roger Federers impossible shot against Andre Agassi in the quarterfinals of the 2005 Dubai Tennis Championships. It’s about as perfect a moment of tennis as one could hope to witness, rendered unintelligible by the fact that its reproduced here as an abstract soundscape.
As easy to follow as tennis…
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