Tonio
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| developer | information.io GmbH |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| Current version | 1.3 (June 3, 2016) |
| operating system | Android , iOS |
| category | Augmented Reality , Browser |
| License | Freeware |
| German speaking | Yes |
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Tonio is an audio decoding app for mobile devices with which information can be sent inaudibly via radio or TV signals to smartphones. The application was developed by the Austrian company information.io GmbH and published in October 2014. Tonio was awarded the Austrian Radio Prize and the Austrian Media Future Prize. The name Tonio stands for "sound with information".
use
Information that the application can receive inaudibly via audio signals includes URLs , related news, concert tickets, vouchers or music downloads. The provider also names subtitles for operas as a possible use. The Austrian marketer of cinema advertising, Cinecom, offers advertisers through Tonio the opportunity to supplement commercials with information sent to Tonio. The four largest cinema chains in Austria lifted the mobile phone ban that had previously been in force in cinemas. In a report on Tonio, Radio Eins broadcast all of the URLs discussed in the article inaudibly. According to the business magazine trend , ORF is planning a cooperation with Tonio, and the radio station LoungeFM is planning to supplement its radio news with links to articles on DerStandard.at . In April and May 2016 Tonio was used in an Austrian cinema campaign in which quiz questions were sent out about the film shown.
functionality
The application decrypts audio information enriched with an inaudible code, which is also transmitted by the radio or TV station, and translates it, for example, into a web address. In contrast to this, an acoustic fingerprint is a digital code for characterizing a sound or an audio recording , taking into account special acoustic conditions. While acoustic fingerprints are stored in databases, from where they are used for identification (such as voice recognition or the recognition of individual pieces of music) and classification of new, unknown signals or their prints, Tonio relies on encryption and decryption of a code. A prerequisite is therefore a corresponding change in the audio information by the sender. In the USA, applications with inaudible signals sent to servers to monitor users have caused a warning from the US data protection organization Center for Democracy and Technology. According to the operator, the information sent is already decoded locally by the application and not on the company's servers, which means that it is not possible to monitor user behavior.
Awards
- Austrian Media Future Prize 2015 in the category "Forward-looking media companies and their medium"
- Austrian Radio Prize 2015 in the category "Best Innovation"
- Futurezone Award 2015, "Best Infotainment Startup", 2nd place
Individual evidence
- ↑ Additional information, tickets, videos: Internet links via radio articles on DerStandard.at
- ↑ Austrian Radio Prize - Winner 2015
- ↑ The winners of the Media Future Prize ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Article on Horizont.at
- ↑ Radio scene: Tonio links the radio program with the Internet
- ↑ "Film, Sound and Media", February 2015, p. 37
- ↑ Gründerszene.de: This is how this Viennese startup wants to send links from the radio to the smartphone
- ↑ Press release from Cinecom
- ↑ Radio Eins Medienmagazin, December 27, 2014
- ↑ "trend" No. 05/2015 from April 27, 2015, cover story, "Top 100 Start-ups"
- ↑ HORIZONT November 27, 2015, p. 17: "Radio suddenly becomes visible"
- ↑ Wiener Zeitung April 29, 2016, p. 19: When the television speaks to the cell phone
- ↑ Comments for November 2015 Workshop on Cross-Device Tracking - Center for Democracy and Technology, October 16, 2015 (PDF)
- ↑ TrendingTopics.at: Why the Viennese start-up sends hidden tones to smartphone apps via TV and radio
- ↑ The winners of the Media Future Prize ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Austrian Radio Prize - Winner 2015
- ^ Futurezone.at: Futurezone Award
