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Audiography

Audiography is a fancy word that means recording sound. You know how when you talk or when you hear music or even animal sounds, there is sound waves that move through the air? Well, audiography is when we use special tools to record those sound waves and turn them into something we can listen to again and again.

To do audiography, we use a recorder. It's like a magic box that can record sound when we press a button. Imagine you had a toy that can record your voice when you talk into it, the audiography recorder is just like that toy, but for grown-ups.

Once we record the sound, we can play it back anytime we want. We can also do lots of things with that sound in a computer. We can make it louder or quieter, change the pitch, and even remove sounds we don't want to hear.

Audiography is really helpful for lots of things. For instance, if you're watching a movie or TV show, you're hearing the sounds that were audiographed. Also, when your parents go to a concert and want to relive the music later, they can listen to the audiography of that concert.

Overall, audiography is a cool way to record and listen to sounds that we might not have heard otherwise. It's like magic for our ears!
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