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The cadenza woodwind dataset: Synthesised quartets for music information retrieval and machine learning. (2024)
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This paper presents the Cadenza Woodwind Dataset. This publicly available data is synthesised audio for woodwind quartets including renderings of each instrument in isolation. The data was created to be used as training data within Cadenza's second o... Read More about The cadenza woodwind dataset: Synthesised quartets for music information retrieval and machine learning..

Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users (2024)
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Introduction: Previous work on audio quality evaluation has demonstrated a developing convergence of the key perceptual attributes underlying judgments of quality, such as timbral, spatial and technical attributes. However, across existing research t... Read More about Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users.

Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge (2020)
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Cox, T., Fazenda, B., & Greaney, S. (2020). Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge. Journal of Archaeological Science, 122, 105218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105218

With social rituals usually involving sound, an archaeological understanding of a site requires the acoustics to be assessed. This paper demonstrates how this can be done with acoustic scale models. Scale modelling is an established method in archite... Read More about Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge.

On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music (2020)
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Williams, D., Fazenda, B., Williamson, V., & Fazekas, G. (2020). On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music. Sensors, 20(16), e4528. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164528

Music has been shown to be capable of improving runners’ performance in treadmill and laboratory-based experiments. This paper evaluates a generative music system, namely HEARTBEATS, designed to create biosignal synchronous music in real-time accordi... Read More about On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music.

Misleading description of first and second order ambisonic systems (2020)
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Fazenda, B. (2020). Misleading description of first and second order ambisonic systems. Building and Environment, 179, 106981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106981

With regards to the paper Llopis, H. S., Pind, F., & Jeong, C. H. (2020). Development of an auditory virtual reality system based on pre-computed B-format impulse responses for building design evaluation. Building and Environment, 169, 106553. (https... Read More about Misleading description of first and second order ambisonic systems.

Automatic speech-to-background ratio selection to maintain speech intelligibility in broadcasts using an objective intelligibility metric (2018)
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While mixing, sound producers and audio professionals empirically set the speech-to-background ratio (SBR) based on rules of thumb and their own perception of sounds. There is no guarantee that the speech content will be intelligible for the general... Read More about Automatic speech-to-background ratio selection to maintain speech intelligibility in broadcasts using an objective intelligibility metric.

Cave acoustics in prehistory : exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response (2017)
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During the 1980s, acoustic studies of Upper Palaeolithic imagery in French caves—using the technology then available—suggested a relationship between acoustic response and the location of visual motifs. This paper presents an investigation, using mod... Read More about Cave acoustics in prehistory : exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response.

Influence of source location and temporal structure on spatial auditory saliency (2017)
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Podwinska, Z., Fazenda, B., & Davies, W. (2017). Influence of source location and temporal structure on spatial auditory saliency. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 141(5), 3639-3639. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4987852

Hitherto, not many studies have dealt with spatial auditory saliency. Auditory attention studies concerned with spatial aspects generally concentrate on top-down selective or divided attention, e.g., where subjects are asked to attend to one source a... Read More about Influence of source location and temporal structure on spatial auditory saliency.

A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers (2016)
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One criterion in the design of binaural sound scenes in audio production is the extent to which the intended speech message is correctly understood. Object-based audio broadcasting systems have permitted sound editors to gain more access to the metad... Read More about A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers.

Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms (2016)
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A distortion-weighted glimpse proportion metric (BiDWGP) for predicting binaural speech intelligibility were evaluated in simulated anechoic and reverberant conditions, with and without a noise masker. The predictive performance of BiDWGP was compare... Read More about Evaluating a distortion-weighted glimpsing metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in rooms.

Perceived audio quality of sounds degraded by non-linear distortions and single-ended assessment using HASQI (2015)
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assessment using HASQI. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(9), 698-712. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0068

For field recordings and user generated content recorded on phones, tablets, and other mobile
devices nonlinear distortions caused by clipping and limiting at pre-amplification stages, and
dynamic range control (DRC) are common causes of poor audio... Read More about Perceived audio quality of sounds degraded by non-linear distortions and single-ended assessment using HASQI.

Perceptual thresholds for the effects of room modes as a function of modal decay (2015)
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of modal decay. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 137(3), 1088-1098. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4908217

Room modes cause audible artifacts in listening environments. Modal control approaches have
emerged in scientific literature over the years and, often, their performance is measured by criteria
that may be perceptually unfounded. Previous research... Read More about Perceptual thresholds for the effects of room modes as a function of modal decay.

Perception and automatic detection of wind-induced microphone noise (2014)
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Jackson, I., Kendrick, P., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., & Li, F. (2014). Perception and automatic detection of wind-induced microphone noise. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 136(3), 1176-1186. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4892772

Wind can induce noise on microphones, causing problems for users of hearing aids and for those making recordings outdoors. Perceptual tests in the laboratory and via the Internet were carried out to understand what features of wind noise are importan... Read More about Perception and automatic detection of wind-induced microphone noise.

Physical and numerical constraints in source modeling for finite difference simulation of room acoustics (2014)
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Sheaffer, J., van Walstijn, M., & Fazenda, B. (2014). Physical and numerical constraints in source modeling for finite difference simulation of room acoustics. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 135(1), 251-261. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4836355

In finite difference time domain simulation of room acoustics, source functions are subject to various constraints. These depend on the way sources are injected into the grid and on the chosen parameters of the numerical scheme being used. This paper... Read More about Physical and numerical constraints in source modeling for finite difference simulation of room acoustics.