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Technology Surrounding The Audio Bible

By Expert Author: Susan Slobac
View Summary | Submitted: 2007-09-24 | Word Count: 512 words | Views: 16 view(s)
Susan Slobac
Through the miracle of technology, audio bibles bring the uplifting message of God's Word to people who, for a variety of reasons, are unable or unwilling to devote time to reading. Different technological advances in recording and playing back audio files have made this possible. The audio bible CD, audio bible mp3, and online download audio clips of bible passages all make for communicating the Word of God a much more user-friendly option.

People living in under-developed countries sometimes do not have access to education on a universal basis. This means that not everyone will have been taught to read. This no longer needs to be an impediment to sharing God's Word with them when they can listen to the Bible instead. There are audio Bible downloads that are now offered in over 250 different languages. No one person, no matter how devoted, would be able to master that many languages to the point where they could communicate effectively in every one. Now there is no need to, because by utilizing this amazing digital technology you can bring the Bible to many people groups, even if you do not have mastery of the native languages of the land.

A compact disc, or CD, is a disc that is used to store digital data. Electronic data is compressed and stored on the disc as series of tiny encoded pits crafted into the top layer of the CD. The disc is read by a CD player, which uses a semiconductor laser to shine a beam through the bottom of the CD, which then picks up the different heights and valleys on the disc and translates it into data that can be read by the player or computer

An mp3 file can compress even more data than a CD, and also has the ability to be easily stored on a computer and read. Mp3 refers to MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3. This type of file compresses the data held in an audio recording yet does not lose the sound quality of the original uncompressed recording. It essentially gets rid of extraneous sounds that are beyond the normal hearing range for a human, which helps reduce the total amount of data. Next, it records the data that remains in a very efficient way, so that there are no duplications of data entered. If data is used repeatedly in a sound track, the original instance of the recorded data is referred in subsequent instances when it is needed, thereby eliminating any extra references to it, and allowing the data to be compressed considerably.

Mp3 files can be downloaded onto a computer for listening, or they can be placed upon a tiny mp3 player, which is about the size of a lipstick holder. God's Word, in all its digital glory, can be easily played while you work out or commute, or it can be played across the world to people in their own languages, so that all can benefit from its power and teaching.
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Susan Slobac uses the recent technologies available for the audio Bible. The audio Bible has been of great benefit to her. Using audio clips of bible passages in her Bible study program, she reports that the MP3 audio Bible downloads and audio Bible CD has helped bring a renewed interest to her Bible study program.

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