Chirp

Chirp Explorer Board: The prototyping board designed for data-over-sound

A fond farewell

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce that after five incredible years, our original consumer Chirp app has finally been laid to rest. He was a pioneer of data-over-audio, the first ever to bring the Internet of Sound to the world stage. He was a mainstay of millions of people’s daily…

Can humans chirp?

Can a human speak to a machine in a machine’s language? Yes, with The Chirp Human…

Sending data using sound with Chirp

Chirp SDKs make sending data with audio incredibly straightforward for developers. Data is…

BroweSharing URLs with sound

Ever found yourself loading up a chat service just to share a link with people in the same room as you? This is exactly the kind of connectivity problem where data-over-sound shines, enabling applications to broadcast short amounts of data to unknown devices simultaneously.

Audio fingerprinting — what is it and why is it useful?

Project Web Whisperer: Chirp speaks to the web

What we mean by ‘audible’, ‘inaudible’ and ‘ultrasonic’

There is a lot of misinformation around about what the terms ‘audible’, ‘inaudible’ and ‘ultrasound’ mean. This post aims to give readers a better understanding of each, the reasons behind some of the confusion, and why the…