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"Visualized" equivalent adjective for audio

English Language & Usage Asked on January 26, 2021

Are there such words as “audiolized” or “audibilized”?

EDIT: Merriam-Webster has the word Audibilized indexed with no definition! What I was trying to achieve was to say that something is an audibilized presentation of some other thing, exactly the same way we use visualized presentation.

EDIT: This is a visualization of a sort algorithm. Therefore this is …? Audilization? Auralization? Sound representation?

EDIT: This one as well.

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Just based on the comparable stem, I would expect the term to be to 'auralize'. I suppose the same can be said for 'audibiilze', although 'audiolize' would only seem comparable if the visual word was 'videolize'.

Correct answer by Shawn D. on January 26, 2021

It appears that both "audibilized" and "audiolized" are being used, if only sparingly. Personally, I have never encountered either before (but I think everyone would understand them, thanks to the obvious parallel to the widely used visualized).

Answered by RegDwigнt on January 26, 2021

In the music education community, we often say "audiate" when referring to hearing a melody in "the mind's ear".

The term was coined by music education guru Edwin Gordon, and I think it's pretty well-known amongst musicians (in addition to music teachers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiation

Answered by andyvn22 on January 26, 2021

I don't think there's a good single word for this. "Auralise"(/ze) is the most natural, and even that would give most people a double-take before they understood it.

I think it'd be best to rephrase slightly, such as

X is a presentation of Y in audio form
X is an auditory illustration of Y

Answered by AlexC on January 26, 2021

The question doesn't really make sense,

What I was trying to achieve was to say that something is an audibilized presentation of some other thing, exactly the same way we use visualized presentation.

Hmm? Usually one would say "a visualization". I'm not sure what "visualized presentation" is meant to be. A visualization of data etc.

There are some suggestions as answers here, frankly I think they are dubious. If you want to say this in English, "represent in sound" as a verb and "representation in sound" or "sound representation" would be OK.

Answered by delete on January 26, 2021

If you're looking for a word that many or all of your audience will understand, why not try "imagine"?

Answered by Billy Jo on January 26, 2021

I would suggest audible, sonic , or simply audio. I realize these lack the 'made into' suffix, but I think your listeners will stumble less over these than auralize or audibilized. To me audibilized suggests that some imperceptible sound was amplified to the point of audibility, rather than translated from another sensory modality.

Answered by moioci on January 26, 2021

I agree with the poster who suggested audiation, as that is the process of imagining sound.

In response to your second edit, there is another very appropriate and widely accepted word for representing information with sound: sonification.

Answered by Matt Montag on January 26, 2021

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