Translations:What is sonification/1/en

When we make a sound to inform about something we are applying a sonification system. We represent data in the auditory field. We turn data into sounds, these data usually can be representing anything that can be expressed in numbers: a physical measurement, a notion, an action or the vectorial tracking of a sequence of values from a sensor. Many definitions were created for this process called sonification: from “subtype of auditory displays that use non-speech audio to represent information”, to “transformation of data relations into perceived relations in an acoustic signal for the purposes of facilitating communication or interpretation” and, in a more definitive and precise way, “data-dependent generation of sound, if the transformation is systematic, objective and reproducible” , and finally “technique of transforming non-audible data into sound that can be perceived by human hearing” . To make it simple in the context of this manual we can state briefly that “sonification is the process of generating sound from any sort of data to represent their information as audio”. In even more simple terms we can say to a student that sonification describes data with sound as visualization does with graphs, flow charts, histograms etc.