Clapping is a behavior so deeply rooted in human beings it’s almost an instinct. You can see babies and toddlers clapping just because everybody else is, and if you’ve ever felt the pressure to be ...

Diane Warren‘s songwriting job for Tell It Like a Woman was simple: create a hymn for female empowerment. “We tend to beat ourselves up a lot,” the veteran tune scribe said during a panel at ...

YouTube deserves a round of applause — because the video platform can now include [APPLAUSE] and other sound effects in a video’s closed captions automatically. The caption expansion, announced on ...

Primitive though they may be, given just a simple audio recording of a single handclap, is it possible to determine the hand-configuration of the clapper via a computer-assisted digital analysis of ...

The hills were alive with “The Sound of Music” this past weekend in the Immaculata Hall Auditorium at Saint Mary’s as the Elementary School Drama Program presented three consecutive performances of ...

YouTube has used algorithms to automatically caption speech for eight years now in an effort to make its billions of videos more accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing. While the feature was ...