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Headphone Transparification: A Novel Method for Investigating the Externalization of Binaural Sounds

The only way to be certain that binaurally rendered sounds are properly externalised is to compare them to real sound sources in a discrimination experiment. However, the presence of the headphones required for the binaural rendering interfere with the real sound source. A novel technique is presented which uses small compensating signals applied to the headphones at the same time as the real source is active, such that the signals reaching the ears are the same as if the headphones were not present.

Authors: Moore, Alastair H.; Tew, Anthony I.; Nicol, Rozenn
Affiliations: University of York; France Telecom R&D(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention:123 (October 2007) Paper Number:7166 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Perception

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