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Audio Latency Masking in Music Telepresence Using Artificial Reverberation

Network latency poses significant challenges in music telepresence systems designed to enable multiple musicians at different locations to perform together in real-time. Since each musician hears a delayed version of the performance from the other musicians it is difficult to maintain synchronization and there is a natural tendency for the musicians to slow their tempo while awaiting response from their fellow performers. We asked if the introduction of artificial reverberation can enable musicians to better tolerate latency by conducting experiments with performers where the degree of latency was controllable and for which artificial reverberation could be added or not. Both objective and subjective evaluation of ensemble performances were conducted to evaluate the perceptual responses at different experimental settings.

Authors: Gang, Ren; Shivaswamy, Samarth; Roessner, Stephen; Rao, Akshay; Headlam, Dave; Bocko, Mark F.
Affiliation: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
AES Convention:133 (October 2012) Paper Number:8688 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Networked Audio

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