Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Sounds from the womb.

~~~As of yesterday, my unborn baby is already podcasting her sounds through the Internet. Those sounds from the womb are very precious for her mother and me. Especially because one day, when she is born, she will hear them. She will see how delicate she was inside her mommy's womb. And also the interest of her parents to record her movements not only in our memory, but electronically. ~~~

Oh, you move! A lot, I might say. Today, in the year 2006, we do not posses any device that record and save into a computerized memory lot the sensation of actually feeling a baby moving inside the belly. I ignore if at your time, in the future, when you grow older and taller, such inventions will exist. Today we barely have sound recording devices and computers. What I did, baby girl, was to connect a cable from the Bebe Sounds gadget (the one that captures your sounds in order for us to hear you from the outside) into my laptop. I recorded it, then saved it to a memory stick (because I don´t have Internet connection right now). I downloaded the sounds from the memory stick to a computer with Internet connection. Then I converted the audio files, from WAV to MP3. Don't laugh baby girl, I know in the future you will hear of such terms at museums or ugly books. Maybe in the future you will have more innovative devices as computers with brain cells, or even the ability to save software and files in our own cells. At least that's what I have read the future will be, the future you will live you teenage and adulthood.

Those MP3 files, then, were uploaded to a podcast, your podcast, at Odeo.com. Since MP3 files are compressed, they save space, in this case, space in the cyberspace. So many website, today, prefer MP3s for audio.

So anyone interested in hearing your sounds from the womb will simply have to push the player to the left of this post. Once they've found it, they push it once to activate it, and a second time to actually play it. If those people turn un their headphones or audio equipment, they will hear you! This is the technology we have today. You might see it in the future as something came out of the Stone Age. But we are doing the best we can today, in the dawn of the new millenium. Only because your are the dawn our new life as parents.

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Audio files with your heart beats uploaded so far:
http://media.odeo.com/files/3/4/3/703343.mp3
http://media.odeo.com/files/3/2/9/706329.mp3

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