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Welcome to Radiophony, innovative
audio solutions in communications for ordinary
people. Our aim is to promote ways to make
the Internet accessible for everyone. We
have recently helped set up a community
audio center in a village in Andhra Pradesh.
Click here for
details, or use the navigation bar to
the left to go to the descriptions of the
installation, the engineering and a selection
of pictures. |
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Because it is:
Natural: we know how to speak
before we know how to read and write.
Flexible: we can speak about
five times faster than we can type and probably
10 times faster than we can write
Cost-effective: even less
economically able people have access to audio
communication devices such as telephones and
radios, so the market is huge and available
in many economic regions
Growing: this area is currently
exploding on the Internet, as is demonstrated
by the success of services such as i-mode
and peer-to-peer file-sharing.
Democratic: far more people
are able to produce quality audio content
than written, especially in less able economic
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While many giant companies
in the music, radio and telecom industries
cater to our needs in audio communications,
there are serious lacuna in the way they
handle the medium, as the graphic Below
plotting FM Radio against traditional (point-to-point)
telephony, illustrates. Clearly, there is
scope for a service that can deliver quality
audio communications globally at an affordable
price. If this happens, future spinoffs
in terms of innovative new revenue streams
from communication usage such as e-commerce
could be considered. The Internet is easily
able to provide storage and censorship-free
global reach to the audio medium. At the
same time, as voice recognition improves
(see for instance http://speechbot.research.compaq.com),
it is able to handle text and speech interchangeably.
However, computer-based access still does
not efficiently reach millions of people,
nor is the cost affordable to end users
in lesser economies.
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We have chosen to focus on this
area because, if we can effectively address
these issues, we could easily double the number
of people Internet-model communications reaches
in the near timeframe. In short, Radiophony
seeks to develop audio communication solutions
for ordinary people. Our focus is to bring
the benefits of the Internet model to everyone,
in the most convenient and accessible ways.
Unlike traditional models, we provide wireless
audio leveraged through proven Internet models
to enable voice and data access to most people
who seek alternatives to keyboard and mouse
driven methods, at costs well below the forbidding
levels of mobile data communication today.
Production
In order to ensure continuous growth of content
for audio, we will undertake and encourage
the development of audio access, designed
for both one-to-one and one-to-many communications
Dissemination
Our primary aim is to make available wireless
infrastructure through which people everywhere
will gain effortless access to the Internet,
using everyday tools such as telephones and
radios
Promotion
We will promote the concept of audio wireless
access to the Internet worldwide. |
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The chart illustrates that radio
scores on its ability to reach lots of people
(Numbers of Consumers) at an affordable cost
(Price), but (as currently deployed) is poor
in terms of freedom from manipulation (Censorship)
and geographical accessibility (Reach). Radio
is also good from the quality aspect (compared
to telephony) but both suffer from the complete
lack of storage capability, something that
data-centric networks like the Internet take
virtually for granted.
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