Microphone
noun
A device that turns sound into an electrical signal.
The singer forgot the words and stepped back from the microphone.
Often appears as...
- hold a microphone
- speak into a microphone
noun
A device that turns sound into an electrical signal.
The singer forgot the words and stepped back from the microphone.
Often appears as...
- hold a microphone
- speak into a microphone
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Pro Tip 1/3Speech Amplification
Microphones are essential for amplifying voices in large spaces to ensure everyone can hear.
Without the microphone, the speaker's voice was barely audible at the back of the auditorium.
Pro Tip 2/3Live Performances
Performers often use microphones during live events, such as concerts or theatre productions.
The actor's microphone allowed his monologue to resonate throughout the entire theatre.
Pro Tip 3/3Recording Sessions
In studios, high-quality microphones capture the clarity and nuances of voices and instruments.
The singer adjusted her microphone before the recording session began.
Pro Tip 1/3Speech Amplification
Microphones are essential for amplifying voices in large spaces to ensure everyone can hear.
Without the microphone, the speaker's voice was barely audible at the back of the auditorium.
Pro Tip 2/3Live Performances
Performers often use microphones during live events, such as concerts or theatre productions.
The actor's microphone allowed his monologue to resonate throughout the entire theatre.
Pro Tip 3/3Recording Sessions
In studios, high-quality microphones capture the clarity and nuances of voices and instruments.
The singer adjusted her microphone before the recording session began.
Pro Tip 1/3Speech Amplification
Microphones are essential for amplifying voices in large spaces to ensure everyone can hear.
Without the microphone, the speaker's voice was barely audible at the back of the auditorium.
Pro Tip 2/3Live Performances
Performers often use microphones during live events, such as concerts or theatre productions.
The actor's microphone allowed his monologue to resonate throughout the entire theatre.
Pro Tip 3/3Recording Sessions
In studios, high-quality microphones capture the clarity and nuances of voices and instruments.
The singer adjusted her microphone before the recording session began.
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Video examples
Chris Milk: How virtual...
So we're shooting in every direction. This is a camera system that we built that has 3D cameras that look in every direction and binaural microphones that face in every direction. We take this and we build, basically, a sphere of a world that you inhabit. So what I'm going to show you is not a view into the world, it's basically the whole world stretched into a rectangle.
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Could we speak the...
they go off the edge and hunt in deep water. Now, it's not a bad place to be a researcher, either. So we go out for about five months every summer in a 20-meter catamaran, and we live, sleep and work at sea for weeks at a time. My main tool is an underwater video with a hydrophone, which is an underwater microphone, and this is so
Video examples
Avi Rubin: All your...
the microphone in the car, and listening in on the car while tracking it via GPS on a map, and so that's something that the drivers of the car would never know was happening. Am I scaring you yet? I've got a few more of these interesting ones. These are ones where I went to a conference,
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Listening To Recorded...
little earphone blank astonishment was always followed by huge grins of delight you tried to explain what we were doing was they couldn't understand it what we could do was turn a switch and then use the microphone which is big handy things like that use that as a speaker and so I
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Nationalism vs....
So let's go quick. There's one right here. Keep your hands held up at the back if you want the mic, and we'll get it back to you. In your work, you talk a lot about the fictional stories that we accept as truth, and we live our lives by it. As an individual, knowing that,
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Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
This is a new experimental project, and people are watching her on their screens, there's cameras involved and there's microphones and she's got an earbud in her ear, and people over the network are giving her advice about what to do next." And he said, "Wait a second.
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“BioBot” Roaches Could...
we create with electronic backpacks and unidirectional microphone array we can pinpoint location of a sound source for example a victim crying out for help you can direct biobots to area where a victim is crying out for help and the location information can be sent to
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Three ideas. Three...
who'd never held a microphone before, I knew as soon as I walked and stood in front of the audience, I knew, before I'd even landed my first joke, I knew that I really liked stand-up, and stand-up really liked me. But for the life of me, I couldn't work out why.
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Why do whales sing? -...
of the same species. We can eavesdrop on these songs using underwater microphones called hydrophones. These help us track species when sightings or genetic samples are rare. For example, scientists have been able to differentiate
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Expanding our definition...
right at one point I'm back here it's it's some laps not helping is it I'm back here the multi-directional microphone in the
Video examples
Chris Milk: How virtual...
So we're shooting in every direction. This is a camera system that we built that has 3D cameras that look in every direction and binaural microphones that face in every direction. We take this and we build, basically, a sphere of a world that you inhabit. So what I'm going to show you is not a view into the world, it's basically the whole world stretched into a rectangle.
Video examples
Could we speak the...
they go off the edge and hunt in deep water. Now, it's not a bad place to be a researcher, either. So we go out for about five months every summer in a 20-meter catamaran, and we live, sleep and work at sea for weeks at a time. My main tool is an underwater video with a hydrophone, which is an underwater microphone, and this is so
Video examples
Avi Rubin: All your...
the microphone in the car, and listening in on the car while tracking it via GPS on a map, and so that's something that the drivers of the car would never know was happening. Am I scaring you yet? I've got a few more of these interesting ones. These are ones where I went to a conference,
Video examples
Listening To Recorded...
little earphone blank astonishment was always followed by huge grins of delight you tried to explain what we were doing was they couldn't understand it what we could do was turn a switch and then use the microphone which is big handy things like that use that as a speaker and so I
Video examples
Nationalism vs....
So let's go quick. There's one right here. Keep your hands held up at the back if you want the mic, and we'll get it back to you. In your work, you talk a lot about the fictional stories that we accept as truth, and we live our lives by it. As an individual, knowing that,
Video examples
Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
This is a new experimental project, and people are watching her on their screens, there's cameras involved and there's microphones and she's got an earbud in her ear, and people over the network are giving her advice about what to do next." And he said, "Wait a second.
Video examples
“BioBot” Roaches Could...
we create with electronic backpacks and unidirectional microphone array we can pinpoint location of a sound source for example a victim crying out for help you can direct biobots to area where a victim is crying out for help and the location information can be sent to
Video examples
Three ideas. Three...
who'd never held a microphone before, I knew as soon as I walked and stood in front of the audience, I knew, before I'd even landed my first joke, I knew that I really liked stand-up, and stand-up really liked me. But for the life of me, I couldn't work out why.
Video examples
Why do whales sing? -...
of the same species. We can eavesdrop on these songs using underwater microphones called hydrophones. These help us track species when sightings or genetic samples are rare. For example, scientists have been able to differentiate
Video examples
Expanding our definition...
right at one point I'm back here it's it's some laps not helping is it I'm back here the multi-directional microphone in the
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Quote examples
Logic
American Musician
When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe - but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally.
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Kathy Griffin
American Comedian
I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!
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Victoria Monet
American Musician
One time I was performing so hard that I chipped my tooth on the microphone. For the rest of the show I was afraid to smile because I wasn't sure how much of my tooth was gone.
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Yo Gotti
American Musician
Me as a person, man, I'm just rapping reality. Every time I get in front of the microphone I'm just speaking about real life and what's happening.
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Julia Holter
American Musician
It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to be said for doing it yourself.
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Kandi Burruss
American Musician
You get a different respect when you can handle things on the behind the scenes end as well as in front of the camera or in front of the mic.
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Travis Scott
American Rapper
Raging and having good feelings and having fun is something I plan on doing and spreading across the world. I just need air and a mic.
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Enzo Amore
American Musician
You put a microphone in my hand on live TV, and that's just an opportunity for me to get ahead in life. That's the way I look at it.
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Gabrielle Carteris
American Actress
We never want to see anyone go in front of the camera or behind the mic without union protection.
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Leslie Jones
American Comedian
As soon as I touched the mic, I knew that's what I would do for the rest of my life.
Quote examples
Logic
American Musician
When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe - but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally.
Quote examples
Kathy Griffin
American Comedian
I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!
Quote examples
Victoria Monet
American Musician
One time I was performing so hard that I chipped my tooth on the microphone. For the rest of the show I was afraid to smile because I wasn't sure how much of my tooth was gone.
Quote examples
Yo Gotti
American Musician
Me as a person, man, I'm just rapping reality. Every time I get in front of the microphone I'm just speaking about real life and what's happening.
Quote examples
Julia Holter
American Musician
It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to be said for doing it yourself.
Quote examples
Kandi Burruss
American Musician
You get a different respect when you can handle things on the behind the scenes end as well as in front of the camera or in front of the mic.
Quote examples
Travis Scott
American Rapper
Raging and having good feelings and having fun is something I plan on doing and spreading across the world. I just need air and a mic.
Quote examples
Enzo Amore
American Musician
You put a microphone in my hand on live TV, and that's just an opportunity for me to get ahead in life. That's the way I look at it.
Quote examples
Gabrielle Carteris
American Actress
We never want to see anyone go in front of the camera or behind the mic without union protection.
Quote examples
Leslie Jones
American Comedian
As soon as I touched the mic, I knew that's what I would do for the rest of my life.
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