RecApp: A mobile application for ubiquitous and collaborative audio processing

ABSTRACT

The present paper provides a methodological framework for the design of a novel intelligent audio content processing cloud model. Motivated from previous experience on "desktop" audio content analysis and processing, a device-independent cloud model is thoroughly analyzed and designed, aiming at serving demanding new media services for the non-technologically experts (i.e. Journalists, Media Professionals, etc.). RecApp Android mobile application provides support to Journalists easily editing and sharing their audio material so they can better evaluate and disseminate it in working groups.

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Index Terms

• Computer systems organization

  • Architectures

    • Distributed architectures

• Hardware

  • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

• Human-centered computing

  • Collaborative and social computing

• Software and its engineering

  • Software organization and properties

    • Software system structures

      • Distributed systems organizing principles