How to Use audio in a Sentence

audio

1 of 2 adjective
  • The audio portion of the broadcast was fine but the picture was poor.
  • They listened to an audio recording of the speech.
  • The audio team has been publicly burned in the recent past.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time there’ve been audio issues at the Grammys, but come on.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Maps and audio move to the top and bottom but are still controllable.
    WIRED, 31 July 2023
  • What is the best way to find out if an audio recording is real or not?
    Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Plus, users can look to the audio controls on the side to adjust volume, tracks, and even answer calls.
    Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Teens will give their driver a unique PIN number at the start of the ride and there will be in-app audio recording during the trip.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 17 May 2023
  • The new app will feature improved search, which will bring up results across the three audio services.
    Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Now, audio titles can come bundled with a music plan, or even free.
    Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2023
  • In Zoom, find the audio settings by clicking zoom.us in the upper left corner of your screen, then go to Preferences, and click the Audio tab.
    Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Anyone who records the channel to a USB key, however, would discover that one of the audio tracks is, in fact, a compressed file.
    WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Lawyers for Moss and Freeman, who are Black, also played for jurors audio recordings of the graphic and racist threats the women received.
    Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Last year, the genre grew 60% in audio streams, according to the Associated Press.
    Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • On the audio side, a 20-hour uncensored and unabridged version of Ellroy’s American Tabloid launched last year.
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry.
    Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The new accounts include a unique PIN number that teens will have to give to their driver before embarking and in-app audio recording of the ride.
    Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 17 May 2023
  • Each mood gets about 7,000 words, and the final audio dataset amounts to several hours covering all of a character’s styles.
    Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The audio streamer isn’t the only successful Swedish export to rethink its approach to staffing.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Europe, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In that time he’s tested myriad headphones and closely followed the top audio brands.
    Geoffrey Morrison, wsj.com, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Teenagers can produce video and audio productions through the Digital Arts Lab.
    Kate Cassada, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Some posts featured audio clips from the trial, including Heard’s comment about her dog stepping on a bee.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • The turntable and speakers were chosen by audio specialist Benjamin Brinkman.
    Julie Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • There, the mother said in audio message from a friend’s cellphone, the family was kidnapped and held for two days in a cockfighting arena.
    Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Wisely not leveraging the scope of the audio screen until several songs into the evening, the band was able to focus attention on its melodies and earnest lyrics.
    Brad Auerbach, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The battery life lasts up to 20 hours, plus features like transparency mode and spatial audio pair the headphones well with Apple Music heads.
    Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2023
  • Other family members can join in on the tunes thanks to the audio splitter that allows the baby and another person to listen at the same time.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The move comes after Moog was acquired by the audio electronics company inMusic in June of this year.
    Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2023
  • And in the safe there were audio recordings: a pile of encrypted hard drives, large tape cassettes and microcassettes that were made over decades, amounting to thousands of hours.
    Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 10 June 2023
  • Machine learning models need to analyze real and fake audio samples from each language to tell the difference between them.
    Huo Jingnan, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
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2 of 2 noun
  • The picture was clear but the audio was very poor.
  • At the opening of the video, the audio is strangely muffled.
    Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • Those skylights needed to be rigged to open in time with the audio.
    Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The feature can be found in the drop-down menu along with the subtitles and audio.
    Vulture, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Michelle Williams provided the voice of Spears for the memoir’s audio book.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
  • There may be some differences between the audio and the text.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • There’s no audio, but the body language is telling: Doty’s on the defensive.
    Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Set to audio inspired by Rose McGowan’s role in the 1996 thriller Scream, the actress sculpted the perfect jack-o-lantern in the clip.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
  • And of course, the Studio Buds Plus will support spatial audio.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2023
  • In the video, Bertinelli takes a deep breath while audio of Selena Gomez plays.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Chandler police released 911 audio of the woman who said she had been shot in the back.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
  • On Tuesday, jurors heard audio from some of those calls.
    Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The ship's audio captured the moment of impact at 1:29 — the ship's pilot reported the bridge coming down at the same time.
    Patrick Smith, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Judge Steven Boyce had earlier ruled there would be no video or live audio of the trial.
    Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 9 May 2023
  • Ilg can be heard begging for help in panic in audio from the 911 call released by police.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 21 June 2023
  • The Eufy Pet Dog Camera is our top pick for its easy set-up and high-quality video and audio.
    Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Police said the phones have good video of the incident, clear audio of his threats and video of the suspect’s actions, but no evidence of the firearm.
    cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • The 12-episode limited series will span both audio and video.
    Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The 360-degree audio gives the experience of being in a movie theater at home.
    Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Robinson did say Braxton was also begging to get back with him and Lee has audio to prove it.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The only complaint — voiced with some humor by his fans online — is that the actual audio of the track isn’t even 2:30 long.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Direct messages in the X app, and toggle the Enable audio and video calling option to off.
    Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The chaotic audio came as a male suspect opened fire at the bar and the bowling alley, prompting a massive manhunt.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The ruling, which is non-binding, leaves it to the village board to vote on the release of the relevant portions of audio from the meetings in question.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2023
  • The sheriff’s office on Thursday released a video of the March incident along with audio from the driver’s 911 call.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Soundbars are a great way to boost your audio profile without setting up a ton of speakers.
    K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The rapper’s on-demand video and audio streams total 10.1 billion.
    Rio Yamat, Jonathan Landrum Jr. and Maria Sherman, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • During a second call to 911, a caller was advised to roll down a window, according to audio from the call.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 26 July 2023
  • For example, try avoiding the TV screen and listening to only the audio.
    Krissy Brady, Health, 27 July 2023
  • According to dispatch audio, one woman who called police had been in a tent with two other men when the attack occurred.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 4 Apr. 2024

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