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Sound wearing a suit so machines will take it seriously.

means Relating to sound, especially recorded or transmitted sound, in a form equipment can process.

from From Latin 'audio,' meaning 'I hear,' the first-person form of 'audire,' to hear — the same root that gives us 'audience,' 'audible,' and 'auditorium.' Engineers in the early 20th century borrowed the verb straight out of Latin grammar books to name the signal itself, so the word literally announces 'I hear' every time it's stamped on a cable or a file format.

latin root
audire literally means I hear
first recording
Edison's phonograph, 1877, tinfoil cylinder
CD sample rate
44100 times per second, not arbitrary
human hearing
tops out around 20000 hz, roughly
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