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The audio of a tennis match is so interchangeable, I bet it could be stitched together from some standard soundbites on the fly if necessary. * Racket Hit #12
by boredhedgehog 2y ago
The audio of a tennis match is so interchangeable, I bet it could be stitched together from some standard soundbites on the fly if necessary.
* Racket Hit #12 *
* Shoe Squeak #03 *
* Audience Cheer #10 *
* "What a great shot!" *
- netsharc 2y agoThat reminds me of the anecdote of UK radio coverage of a cricket match in Australia in the early 1900's, the broadcasters were reading a transcript (telegraphed?) and hitting the table with pencil to simulate the bat hitting the ball.
- gcanyon 2y agoRonald Reagan used to tell a story like this from his sportscasting days. In particular he mentioned one time the wire system was delayed, and the only way to keep the "game" going without possibly affecting the outcome wrongly was to have the batter continuously foul-tip the ball, and that time in particular "you've never heard of a player executing so many foul tips in a row"
- jamesfinlayson 2y agoCame here to say this exactly! I remember hearing this story from someone born in the 1930s.
- robertlutece 2y agoI believe this[1] 99% Invisible podcast episode talks about foley during sporting events. [1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-sound-of-sports/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-sound-of-sports/
- mapt 2y agoWhat about the grunting? Gonna need a consult with Pornhub on training that one. Ultimately though, with the help of AI and some volunteers in the demoscene, we should be able to compress tennis audio down to a few kilobytes per hour.