Prof Trevor Cox's Outputs (149)

Improving the measurement and acoustic performance of transparent face masks and shields (2022)
Data

This is the raw measured data that is analysed and presented in: T. J. Cox , G. Dodgson, L. Harris, E. Perugia, M. A. Stone, M. Walsh, Improving the measurement and acoustic performance of transparent face masks and shields, Journal of the Acoustical... Read More about Improving the measurement and acoustic performance of transparent face masks and shields.

Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research (2021)
Data

The Clarity Speech Corpus is a forty speaker British English speech dataset. The corpus was created for the purpose of running listening tests to gauge speech intelligibility and quality in the Clarity Project, which has the goal of advancing speech... Read More about Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research.

Clarity-2021 challenges : machine learning challenges for advancing hearing aid processing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent years, rapid advances in speech technology have been made possible by machine learning challenges such as CHiME, REVERB, Blizzard, and Hurricane. In the Clarity project, the machine learning approach is applied to the problem of hearing aid... Read More about Clarity-2021 challenges : machine learning challenges for advancing hearing aid processing.

Stonehenge impulse response measurements (2020)
Data

This is measurement data from the first application of acoustic scale modelling to prehistoric stone circles. The measurements were made in a 1:12 acoustic scale model of Stonehenge. These gave novel insights into how speech and musical sounds were a... Read More about Stonehenge impulse response measurements.

Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge (2020)
Journal Article
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.

How Science Works GCSE (2020)
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Classroom videos, CPD videos, CPD materials and curriculum resources to accompany four How Science Works videos in YouTube playlist https://youtu.be/s6MJxOG7yu0

Professor Trevor Cox's quest for the worst sound in the world, includes investigative... Read More about How Science Works GCSE.

Fast speech intelligibility estimation using a neural network trained via distillation (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Cox, T., Bailey, W., & Tang, Y. (2020, January). Fast speech intelligibility estimation using a neural network trained via distillation. Poster presented at 12th Speech in Noise Workshop, Toulouse, France

Objective measures of speech intelligibility have many uses, including the evaluation of degradation during transmission and the development of processing algorithms. One intrusive approach is to use a method based on the audibility of speech glimpse... Read More about Fast speech intelligibility estimation using a neural network trained via distillation.

Personality and cognitive factors in the assessment of multimodal stimuli in immersive virtual environments (2019)
Thesis
Bailey, J. Personality and cognitive factors in the assessment of multimodal stimuli in immersive virtual environments. (Thesis). University of Salford

Literature in the study of human response to immersive virtual reality systems often deals with the phenomenon of presence. It can be shown that audio and imagery with spatial information can interact to affect presence in users of immersive virtual... Read More about Personality and cognitive factors in the assessment of multimodal stimuli in immersive virtual environments.

Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Woodcock, J., Fazenda, B., Cox, T., & Davies, W. (2019, September). Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking. Presented at ICA 2019, Aachen, Germany

Pupil dilation has previously been shown to be a useful involuntary marker of listening effort. An inverse relationship between pupil diameter and signal to noise ratio has been shown when speech is energetically masked by noise. The work reported he... Read More about Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking.

Influence of visual stimuli on perceptual attributes of spatial audio (2019)
Journal Article

Reproduced audio is often accompanied with visuals (i.e. television, virtual reality, gaming, and cinema). However, the audio technology for these systems is often researched and evaluated in isolation from the visual component. Previous research ind... Read More about Influence of visual stimuli on perceptual attributes of spatial audio.

Data and supporting information for AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction paper (2019)
Data

This fileset contains code, stimuli and listener response data relating to the following work:

R. J. Hughes, A. Franck, T. Cox, B. Shirley, and F. Fazi, "Dual frequency band amplitude panning for multichannel audio systems," in Audio Engineering S... Read More about Data and supporting information for AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction paper.

Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Humans are able to identify a large number of environmental sounds and categorise them according to high-level semantic categories, e.g. urban sounds or music. They are also capable of generalising from past experience to new sounds when applying the... Read More about Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge.

Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Tang, Y., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., Liu, Q., & Wang, W. (2019, May). Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting. Presented at 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK

The intelligibility of speech in noise can be improved by modifying the speech. But with object-based audio, there is the possibility of altering the background sound while leaving the speech unaltered. This may prove a less intrusive approach, affor... Read More about Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting.

Data relating to the AES conference paper "A framework for intelligent metadata adaptation in object-based audio" (2019)
Data

This archive contains the data and analysis scripts to reproduce the results in:

Woodcock, J., Francombe, J., Franck, A., et al. (2018, July). A framework for intelligent metadata adaptation in object-based audio. In Audio Engineering Society Conf... Read More about Data relating to the AES conference paper "A framework for intelligent metadata adaptation in object-based audio".

Data relating to the AES conference paper "A quantitative evaluation of media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction" (2019)
Data

This archive contains the data and analysis scripts to reproduce the results in:

Woodcock, J., Francombe, J., Hughes, R., Mason, R., Davies, W. J., & Cox, T. J. (2018, July). A quantitative evaluation of media device orchestration for immersive sp... Read More about Data relating to the AES conference paper "A quantitative evaluation of media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction".

Data relating to the ICA publication "Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking" (2019)
Data

This repository contains the results and analysis script for the experiment described in:

J Woodcock, BM Fazenda, TJ Cox and WJ Davies (2019). "Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking". In Proc... Read More about Data relating to the ICA publication "Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking".

Audio Illusions & Other Musical Curiosities - Manchester Science Festival 2016 - Raph Performance Edit (2019)
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Audio Illusions & Other Musical Curiosities
(This edit shows only the Raph & Additive Synthesis performance)

A lecture presented in collaboration with the University of Salford and Manchester Science Festival by Dr Phil Brissenden, Professor Trev... Read More about Audio Illusions & Other Musical Curiosities - Manchester Science Festival 2016 - Raph Performance Edit.

Audio Illusions & Other Musical Curiosities - Manchester Science Festival 2016 (2019)
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Audio Illusions & Other Musical Curiosities

A lecture presented in collaboration with the University of Salford and Manchester Science Festival by Dr Phil Brissenden, Professor Trevor Cox and Dr Brendan Williams.

An investigation into audio ill... Read More about Audio Illusions & Other Musical Curiosities - Manchester Science Festival 2016.

Data relating to the JAES publication "Influence of visual stimuli on perceptual attributes of spatial audio" (2019)
Data

This archive contains the data and analysis scripts to reproduce the results in:

J Woodcock, WJ Davies and TJ Cox (2019) "Influence of visual stimuli on perceptual attributes of spatial audio". Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.

The R Ma... Read More about Data relating to the JAES publication "Influence of visual stimuli on perceptual attributes of spatial audio".

The effects of classroom noise on the reading comprehension of adolescents (2019)
Journal Article
Connolly, D., Dockrell, J., Shield, B., Conetta, R., Mydlarz, C., & Cox, T. (2019). The effects of classroom noise on the reading comprehension of adolescents. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 145(1), 372-381. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5087126

An investigation has been carried out to examine the impact of different levels of classroom noise on adolescents’ performance on reading and vocabulary-learning tasks. A total of 976 English high school pupils (564 aged 11 to 13 years and 412 aged 1... Read More about The effects of classroom noise on the reading comprehension of adolescents.