Creating personalized head-related impulse responses is critically important for visually impaired people using electronic travel aids. This study demonstrates an efficient means of generating responses for thousands of locations in about 10 minutes. Verification trials, which measured listeners’ ability to accurately locate virtual sound sources, had average errors in azimuth ranging from 9 to 24 degrees. Such accuracies are sufficient for implementing obstacle sonification for travel aids.

Authors: Dobrucki, Andrzej; Plaskota, Przemyslaw; Pruchnicki, Piotr; Pec, Michal; Bujacz, Michal; Strumillo, Pawel
Affiliations: Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Telecommunications, Teleinformatics and Acoustics, Wroclaw, Poland; Technical University of Lódz ´, Institute of Electronics, Lódz ´, Poland(See document for exact affiliation information.)
JAES Volume 58 Issue 9 pp. 724-738; September 2010
Publication Date: October 14, 2010 Import into BibTeX
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