| From the old wound-up gramophones to players | | | | devices at skin deep level. Going further, what are |
| which produced scratchy tunes when their stylus | | | | audio devices in a more technical sense? They |
| were applied onto vinyl disks, the world of audio | | | | constitute devices or functions which handle sound |
| devices has certainly come a long way. Boom | | | | and voice. These forms of data exist in analog or |
| boxes proudly carried over the shoulders of break | | | | digital form depending on their source. The live |
| dance dancers of yesteryear were possibly the | | | | voice of a human being is in analog form whereas |
| first portable devices. As technology got better, | | | | a robot's voice is a digitally produced sound. Audio |
| circuitry shrunk in size and the portable cassette | | | | devices enable sound to be recorded, played and |
| player was the rage of times. When CDs were | | | | manipulated. If the CD player on your computer |
| introduced, better quality and longer playing music | | | | has recording functionalities, you pop in a CD-R to |
| was finally available to the mass market. With a | | | | record some songs from your hard disk. When |
| portable CD player firmly attached to one's belt, | | | | you play a CD, sound is transmitted from the |
| young people all over were sporting wired | | | | speakers. When you speak into a microphone, |
| headsets. | | | | you record your voice and save it onto a CD-R. |
| What are audio devices in this current day and | | | | Plug in your headset to listen to songs without |
| age? Most players utilize flash disks, no larger than | | | | disturbing others. |
| the palm and insignificant in weight. Available in all | | | | Hidden from plain sight is the computer's audio |
| shapes, sizes and colors, they boast of different | | | | card which controls the input and output of |
| storage capacities able to store thousands of | | | | sounds. As you can see, your computer comes |
| songs. How anyone can even remember each and | | | | with a collection of internal and external audio |
| every one of those songs is beyond most | | | | devices. It's important to note that every device |
| people's comprehension. In the search to merge all | | | | comes with its own driver. This piece of software |
| devices into a single device, mobile phones which | | | | enables the device to be recognized by the |
| double up as personal assistants, cameras, radios | | | | computer's operating system. Hence a faulty |
| as well as players have become the norm. There | | | | device or driver software may be the cause of |
| is no longer the need to cart around various | | | | an audio device not to work on your computer. |
| devices as most commonly used functionalities | | | | Installing a new piece of audio device to your |
| are now jammed into one single device. | | | | computer will require installation of its driver if |
| The above is a mention of the many options of | | | | pre-installed ones are not compatible. |