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The Twenty-second Annual Interactive Audio Conference
PROJECT BAR-B-Q 2017
BBQ Workgroup Reports Overview

 

Alexa, Siri, Cortana or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud

Explores ethics, security, privacy, and user expectations surrounding devices that are always on and always listening

 

“You and the Uni: Defining Pedagogical Requirements for Audio Engineering Education” a.k.a. Discovering What to Learn Them Young Whippersnappers

Presents recommended curricula for both undergraduate and graduate engineering studies necessary in the design of professional and consumer audio electronics

 

A spatial audio format with 6 Degrees of Freedom

Identifies key elements and attributes of an immersive multi-channel audio format that would enable the end user to experience a navigable audio scene (choosing their location and orientation at rendering time), and looks at audio content format needs for this situation

 

CAAML: Creative Audio Applications of Machine Learning

Describes the beneficial use of machine learning within audio applications in three categories: machine learning as a partial solution within a larger pipeline, machine learning as a full solution that stands by itself, and the use of machine learning in parallel with a classical solution

 

Mode and Nodes – Enabling Consumer Use of Heterogeneous Wireless Speaker Devices

Defines a standard with common, wireless transport method where input, not limited to speech, has the capability to inform the output in some meaningful way, enabling an end user to integrate multiple products without having to rely on a proprietary solution, and enabling new capabilities that can improve the user experience

 

Abusing Technology for Creative Purposes

Explores unintended/unofficial use of music production tools and other technologies that form a creative output

 

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1. Introduction
2. Workgroup Reports Overview
3. Alexa, Siri, Cortana or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud
4. “You and the Uni: Defining Pedagogical Requirements for Audio Engineering Education” a.k.a. Discovering What to Learn Them Young Whippersnappers
5. A spatial audio format with 6 Degrees of Freedom
6. CAAML: Creative Audio Applications of Machine Learning
7. Mode and Nodes – Enabling Consumer Use of Heterogeneous Wireless Speaker Devices
8. Abusing Technology for Creative Purposes
9. Schedule & Sponsors