| English | German |
| background sound | Hintergrundsound (An audio file associated with a Web page. When a site visitor opens the page in a Web browser, the audio file plays either continuously or the number of times that the code in the Web page specifies) |
| background sound | Hintergrundmusik (An audio file associated with a Web page. When a site visitor opens the page in a Web browser, the audio file plays either continuously or the number of times that the code in the Web page specifies) |
| Play Sound troubleshooter | Soundwiedergabe-Problembehandlung (A troubleshooter that helps find and fix problems that prevent your computer or audio devices from playing sound) |
| Record Sound troubleshooter | Soundaufnahme-Problembehandlung (A troubleshooter that helps find and fix problems that prevent your computer or devices from recording sound) |
| sound board | Soundkarte (A type of expansion board on PC-compatible computers that allows the playback and recording of sound, such as from a WAV or MIDI file or a music CD-ROM. Most PCs sold at retail include a sound card) |
| sound card | Soundkarte (A type of expansion board on PC-compatible computers that allows the playback and recording of sound, such as from a WAV or MIDI file or a music CD-ROM. Most PCs sold at retail include a sound card) |
| Sound Clip | Soundclip (One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID 37) |
| sound file | Audiodatei (A file that contains the information a computer uses to play sounds on your computer. Sound files usually have the file extension .wav) |
| Sound Recorder | Audiorekorder (The app that facilitates recording voice from a microphone, as well as saving, editing, playing and sharing recorded audio clips) |
| streaming sound buffer | Streaming-Soundpuffer (A small sound buffer that can play lengthy sounds because the application dynamically loads audio data into the buffer as it plays. For example, an application could use a buffer that can hold 3 seconds of audio data to play a 2-minute sound. A streaming buffer requires much less memory than a static buffer) |
| Windows Sound Recorder | Windows-Audiorekorder (The app that facilitates recording voice from a microphone, as well as saving, editing, playing and sharing recorded audio clips) |
