computer science

Spoon Radio

Spoon Radio is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Spoon Radio rather than just read about it. In short: Spoon is a social digital audio live streaming service. It is developed by Spoon Radio Inc., a South Korea-based company with a US office located in San Francisco, California.

Key takeaways

Spoon Radio belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Spoon Radio to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Spoon Radio from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Spoon is a social digital audio live streaming service. It is developed by Spoon Radio Inc., a South Korea-based company with a US office located in San Francisco, California. It allows users to listen to streamers and even start their own live streams using their smartphones and web, without any other equipment. It provides services in four languages, including South Korea, Japan, and Middle Eastern and North African regions.

History CEO Neil Choi, together with founders Hyuk Jun Choi and Hee-jae Lee, started their company Mykoon in 2013 with Plugger, a smartphone battery sharing service. They created Spoon Radio as their flagship on March 23, 2016. Two years since its inception, it got its backing in Series B funding from investors – namely Softbank Ventures Asia, KB Investment (KBIC), and Goodwater Capital – wherein they invested a total of $17 million. As part of its global expansion effort, Spoon has also hired Fernando Pizarro, media and internet executive from Disney, Discovery Communications and Yahoo!, as vice president.

Reception By August 2018, the application has generated net revenue that surpassed more than $20 million, becoming the most famous audio-only streaming service in South Korea. Popular among the youth between ages 18 to 24 years old, Spoon has been downloaded 2.5 million times daily and there have been millions of broadcast uploads. It has expanded to Japan, US, and to different countries. In 2019, it has generated net revenue of $41 million.

Features Spoon is an internet-radio broadcasting mobile application which allows its users to stream through audio alone, hence the catchphrase "live stream without a camera". Listeners can give their favorite streamers digital gifts called "Spoons" which then can be redeemed for money. There is a Live Call feature which lets streamers invite other streamers or even their listeners to co-host the stream with them.

Live Live-streaming is Spoon's most definitive feature. Users can start live broadcasting by simply setting the title and a background image within the app or web. The host, or the "streamer," can interact with the listeners through text-based chats or audio-based live streams.

Podcast Podcast is pre-recorded content. Spoon currently allows its users to either upload a pre-recorded audio file as podcasts or save live streams.

Talk In Talk, users post short discussion topics and can post comments using their voice. At the moment, Talk is only available in the app version.

Live Call At the moment, Spoon allows for a call between a streamer and up to four of their listeners. The streamer, when setting up a live stream, must enable this feature before the live stream begins. The listeners can then call in via clicking the phone icon on the screen. The streamer can then choose which "call" to pick up - and, should the need arise, terminate the call at will.

Voice profile The Voice profile is where users can upload a short clip of their voices. Other users can come to the profile and rate the voice by over 14 different voice types (Sweet, Cute, Flirty, Scary, Soft, Warm, Gentle, Cool, Funny, Friendly, Husky, Powerful, Tough, Romantic).

Originals Apart from user-created content, Spoon also offers Originals, where the contents are done by celebrities or professionals in the entertainment industry.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Spoon Radio

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Spoon Radio claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Spoon Radio before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Spoon Radio ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Spoon Radio

In research: Spoon Radio appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Spoon Radio in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Spoon Radio is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2016 establishments in South Korea, Applications of distributed computing, Companies based in Seoul, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Spoon Radio outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Spoon Radio in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Spoon Radio means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Spoon Radio out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Spoon Radio in simple terms?

Spoon is a social digital audio live streaming service. It is developed by Spoon Radio Inc., a South Korea-based company with a US office located in San Francisco, California.

Why does Spoon Radio matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Spoon Radio?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Spoon Radio.