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  2. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Audio. Windows Vista features a completely re-written audio stack designed to provide low-latency 32-bit floating point audio, higher-quality digital signal processing, bit-for-bit sample level accuracy, up to 144 dB of dynamic range and new audio APIs created by a team including Steve Ball and Larry Osterman.

  3. Windows legacy audio components - Wikipedia

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    KMixer. KMixer is the Kernel Audio Mixer driver, a part of WDM Audio in Windows 98 to Windows XP which handles the mixing of multiple sound buffers into an output. The tasks performed by KMixer.sys: Mixing multiple PCM audio streams. Format, bit-depth (also known as word-length) and sample-rate conversion.

  4. Development of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The development of Windows Vista began in May 2001, [ 1] prior to the release of Microsoft 's Windows XP operating system, and continued until November 2006. Microsoft originally expected to ship Vista sometime late in 2003 as a minor step between Windows XP (codenamed "Whistler") and the next planned major release of Windows, code-named ...

  5. Criticism of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista. Windows Vista, an operating system released by Microsoft for consumers on January 30, 2007, has been widely criticized by reviewers and users. Due to issues with new security features, performance, driver support and product activation, Windows Vista has been the subject of a number of negative assessments by various groups.

  6. Sound Recorder (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    Before Windows 7, Sound Recorder could save the recorded audio in waveform audio (.wav) container files.Sound Recorder could also open and play existing .wav files. To successfully open compressed .wav files in Sound Recorder, the audio codec used by the file must be installed in the Audio Compression Manager (ACM); Windows installations dating back to at least Windows 95 came with a selection ...

  7. Windows Speech Recognition - Wikipedia

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    A prototype speech recognition Aero Wizard in Windows Vista (then known as "Longhorn") build 4093.. At WinHEC 2002 Microsoft announced that Windows Vista (codenamed "Longhorn") would include advances in speech recognition and in features such as microphone array support [10] as part of an effort to "provide a consistent quality audio infrastructure for natural (continuous) speech recognition ...

  8. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Siblings. Compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, features new to Windows Vista are numerous, covering most aspects of the operating system, including additional management features, new aspects of security and safety, new I/O technologies, new networking features, and new technical features. Windows Vista also removed some others.

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