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sonify

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[sah-ni-fahy] / ˈsɑ nɪ faɪ /

verb (used with object)

sonified, sonifying
  1. to communicate (quantitative data or other information) using non-speech audio.


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To do this, he first used a program to sonify environmental data by assigning sounds to different data values.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024

The devices can sonify, for example, the electrical impulses that underground fungal networks emit as they nourish the ecosystems they support through a forest’s root systems.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023

“Standardization is hard! There’s no handbook saying, ‘You want to sonify data?

From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2023

We discovered lots of techniques to sonify the space, but found that what we thought would sound like a river didn't sounds like that at all, so ended up simplifying the space massively.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2010

That work has informed much of the spatial description and storytelling in Papa Sangre, where the team had to try and sonify objects, like keys, that players needed to collect.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2010

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