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Aging and Sound Perception: Desirable Characteristics of Entertainment Audio for the Elderly

During the last few years the research community has made substantial progress towards understanding how aging affects the way the ear and brain process sound. A review of the literature supports our experience as audio professionals that elderly listeners have preferences for the reproduction of entertainment audio that differ from those of young listeners. This presentation reviews the literature on aging and sound perception with a focus on speech. The review identifies desirable audio reproduction characteristics and discusses signal processing techniques to generate audio that is suited for elderly listeners.

Author: Müsch, Hannes
Affiliation: Dolby Laboratories
AES Convention:125 (October 2008) Paper Number:7627 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Hearing Enhancement

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