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Audio Video Interleave
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in 1992 with Video for Windows, long the de facto standard on Windows and still used in archival pipelines.
Audio Video Standard
Audio Video Standard (AVS) is a family of Chinese national standards for digital audio and video compression, developed by a Chinese workgroup since 2002 in three generations.
Audio-lingual method
The audio-lingual method (ALM), or Army Method, is a 1940s US foreign language teaching method based on structural linguistics and behaviorism, using dialogues, pattern drills, and language labs; it dominated the 1950s-1960s and declined after Chomsky's critique of behaviorism.
Audio-Technica (オーディオテクニカ)
Audio-Technica (オーディオテクニカ) is a Japanese audio equipment manufacturer founded by Hideo Matsushita in 1962 and headquartered in Machida, Tokyo, known for phono cartridges, headphones, and microphones.
Audio-visual learning
Audio-visual learning is a machine-learning method that trains models jointly on sound and video, using the natural synchronization of unlabeled video as free supervision; recent systems include Meta's PEAV and video-SALMONN.
Audioanalgesia
Audioanalgesia (audio analgesia) is pain control using auditory stimulation such as music, white noise, or environmental sounds; a MeSH-indexed method originating in 1960s dental practice, delivered via patient-controlled earphones.
Audiobook
Audiobook: a recording of a book read aloud, originating in the 1931-1933 Library of Congress talking-book program for blind readers. Now a $2.43 billion 2025 US market with 750,000 active titles, digital delivery, and W3C manifest standards.
AudioBox
AudioBox is Meta's foundation research model for audio generation, released in December 2023, which unifies speech generation, speech editing, and sound-effect generation in one model.
AudioCaps
AudioCaps is a dataset of 51,308 ten-second YouTube audio clips, each with human-written captions, created by crowdsourcing over Google's AudioSet for training and evaluating audio captioning systems.
AudioCodes
AudioCodes is an Israeli communications technology company, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Or Yehuda, that makes session border controllers, voice gateways, and contact center software.
Audiofreq
Audiofreq is the performance name of Sam Gonzalez, an Australian hardstyle DJ and producer signed to Belgium's Dirty Workz who released the album Audioception in 2013.
AudioGen
AudioGen is a text-to-audio model from Meta AI that generates environmental sounds and sound effects from text descriptions, publicly released in August 2023 as part of AudioCraft.
Audiogenic epilepsy
Audiogenic epilepsy (ORPHA:166415, ICD-11 8A61.40) is a rare reflex epilepsy in which acoustic stimuli, from sudden noises to specific music or voices, trigger seizures; inferior colliculus-driven in rodent models, extremely rare as simple sound-triggered seizures in humans.
AudioLDM
AudioLDM is a family of open latent diffusion models for text-to-audio generation, published at ICML 2023, that creates sound effects and environmental audio from text prompts.
AudioLDM-adjacent sound-effect models
AudioLDM-adjacent sound-effect models are generative text-to-audio systems that create sounds like footsteps and rain from text prompts, led by the diffusion-based AudioLDM lineage introduced in 2023.
AudioLM
AudioLM is an audio generation framework introduced by Google Research in September 2022 that generates realistic speech and piano music continuations from short audio prompts, trained without transcripts.
AudioLM and AudioPaLM
AudioLM and AudioPaLM are two Google speech-generation research models, introduced in 2022 and 2023, that treat audio as discrete tokens for language models to predict.
Audiologic Recruitment Detection
Audiologic recruitment detection: behavioral and objective tests (ABLB/Fowler, SISI, Metz reflex, category loudness scaling) measuring abnormally rapid loudness growth in cochlear hearing loss.
Audiologists
Audiologists are health care professionals who evaluate, diagnose, and treat hearing loss, balance disorders, and tinnitus in all ages, typically holding a doctor of audiology degree.
Audiology
Audiology: healthcare profession of hearing and balance care; audiologists diagnose and treat hearing, balance, tinnitus, and auditory disorders across all ages; doctoral (Au.D.) trained; shaped by the 2022 FDA OTC hearing aid category.
Audiomack
Audiomack is a free, ad-supported music streaming and discovery platform founded in New York in 2012, now among the most-used streaming services in much of Africa.
Audiometry
Audiometry is the measurement of hearing sensitivity, most often by pure-tone audiometry, the World Health Organization's gold standard test, which detects and grades hearing loss.
Audion
The Audion tube is the three-electrode vacuum tube (triode) invented by Lee de Forest in 1906, the first electronic device capable of amplifying electrical signals.
Audiophile
An audiophile is a person enthusiastic about high-quality sound reproduction, building and tuning audio systems for fidelity to the original recording. The word dates to 1951.
Audioriver 2026
Audioriver Festival is a Polish electronic music festival founded in 2006 in Płock and held since 2024 at Łódzkie Błonia in Łódź; its 20th-anniversary 2026 edition was headlined by The Prodigy.
AudioSet
AudioSet is a large-scale dataset of human-labeled 10-second YouTube sound clips, released by Google in March 2017 as an ImageNet-like resource for audio event detection.
Audioslave
Audioslave, also known as The Civilian Project, was an American hard rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2001 by Chris Cornell and Rage Against the Machine's guitarist, bassist, and drummer.
Audioslave (album)
Audioslave (2002) is the self-titled debut album by the supergroup of Chris Cornell with Rage Against the Machine's Morello, Commerford, and Wilk, produced by Rick Rubin; 14 tracks, Billboard 200 number seven, 3x Platinum in the US.
Audiotistic Music Festival
Audiotistic, also billed as the Audiotistic Music Festival, is a Southern California electronic and hip-hop festival founded in 1996 by Meelo Solis and run by Insomniac since 2009.
Audiovisual
Audiovisual, often abbreviated AV, describes media, equipment, and systems that combine sound and pictures, and the engineering field making them work together, from conference rooms to television broadcast.