Muddy, Muddled, or Muffled? Understanding the Perception of Audio Quality in Music by Hearing Aid Users (2024)
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Underlying primary research data for a sensory evaluation study, focussing on the development of perceptual attributes for music audio quality from the perspective of hearing aid users. Research data include three .csv datasets corresponding to an in... Read More about Muddy, Muddled, or Muffled? Understanding the Perception of Audio Quality in Music by Hearing Aid Users.

Speech-To-Screen raw data zip file (2022)
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Speech-To-Screen listening experiment - raw data
Zip file containing 100 x .mat files (Matlab)
See also separate ReadMe text file for further details

20 participants, 5 files each:
* 1 x practice session
* 4 x actual sessions: SMN_0; SMN_1; SS... Read More about Speech-To-Screen raw data zip file.

Read Me info for Speech-To-Screen raw data zip file (2022)
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.txt file with information relating to the S2S Raw Data zip file.


Note that:

INT: Speech internalised; Noise internalised.

SN: Speech internalised; Noise externalised (at screen).

NS: Speech externalised (at screen); Noise internalised.... Read More about Read Me info for Speech-To-Screen raw data zip file.

Speech-To-Screen collated correct word percentages (2022)
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.txt file containing results from the 'Speech-To-Screen listening experiment collated as correct word percentages.

20 x participants (s1-s20)
16 x combination of conditions tested per participant:
- 2 x masking noise types: SSN and SMN
- 2 x vi... Read More about Speech-To-Screen collated correct word percentages.

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

Stonehenge impulse response measurements (2020)
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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.

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.

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

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 JAES publication "Influence of visual stimuli on perceptual attributes of spatial audio" (2019)
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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".

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.

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.

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".

How Science Works KS3 (2019)
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CPD and curriculum resources for four videos in Youtube playlist https://youtu.be/63n8MjHLSg8

Investigations into helping asthma sufferers, practical and enquiry skills, respiration, biology.
Trying to reduce the carbon footprint of the UK music... Read More about How Science Works KS3.

Blog about the Pillars of Wisdom project (2018)
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a blog describing the project by collaborator Prof Trevor Cox