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sonification

American  
[sah-ni-fi-kay-shuhn] / ˌsɑ nɪ fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

sonifications plural
  1. the act or process of sonifying something, especially a set of quantitative data.


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The editor links interactions across modalities, so if a user changes the textual description, that information is adjusted in the corresponding sonification.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

Astronomers use a technique called sonification to translate complex visual data into sound.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2024

“If I listen to a sonification of a dataset, it will tell me a slightly different story than if I’m just looking,” says Arcand.

From National Geographic • Jan. 26, 2024

For a discipline that strives to make sense of the world we live in, Bellona said that sonification represented “a really exciting” shift in how scientists can utilize other senses toward communicating information.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Kimberly Arcand, a data visualization expert with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, views sonification as just another way of translating data from one form into another.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2023

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