Personalized Object-Based Audio for Hearing Impaired TV Viewers
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BE. GU. Shirley, M. Meadows, F. Malak, JA. ST. Woodcock, and A. Tidball, "Personalized Object-Based Audio for Hearing Impaired TV Viewers," J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 293-303, (2017 April.). doi: https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2017.0005
BE. GU. Shirley, M. Meadows, F. Malak, JA. ST. Woodcock, and A. Tidball, "Personalized Object-Based Audio for Hearing Impaired TV Viewers," J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol. 65 Issue 4 pp. 293-303, (2017 April.). doi: https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2017.0005
Abstract: Age demographics have led to an increase in the proportion of the population suffering from some form of hearing loss. The introduction of object-based audio to television broadcasting has the potential to improve the viewing experience for millions of hearing impaired people. Personalization of object-based audio can assist in overcoming difficulties in understanding speech and the narrative audio. This research presented describes a Multi-Dimensional Audio (MDA) implementation of object-based clean audio that presents independent object streams based on object-category elicitation. Evaluations were carried out with hearing impaired people, and participants were able to personalize audio levels independently for four object-categories using an on-screen menu: speech, music, background effects, and foreground effects related to on-screen events. Results show considerable preference variation across subjects but nevertheless the expanding object-category personalization beyond a binary speech/nonspeech categorization can substantially improve the viewing experience for some hearing impaired people.
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journal={journal of the audio engineering society},
title={personalized object-based audio for hearing impaired tv viewers},
year={2017},
volume={65},
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doi={https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2017.0005},
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@article{shirley2017personalized,
author={shirley, ben guy and meadows, melissa and malak, fadi and woodcock, james stephen and tidball, ash},
journal={journal of the audio engineering society},
title={personalized object-based audio for hearing impaired tv viewers},
year={2017},
volume={65},
number={4},
pages={293-303},
doi={https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2017.0005},
month={april},
abstract={age demographics have led to an increase in the proportion of the population suffering from some form of hearing loss. the introduction of object-based audio to television broadcasting has the potential to improve the viewing experience for millions of hearing impaired people. personalization of object-based audio can assist in overcoming difficulties in understanding speech and the narrative audio. this research presented describes a multi-dimensional audio (mda) implementation of object-based clean audio that presents independent object streams based on object-category elicitation. evaluations were carried out with hearing impaired people, and participants were able to personalize audio levels independently for four object-categories using an on-screen menu: speech, music, background effects, and foreground effects related to on-screen events. results show considerable preference variation across subjects but nevertheless the expanding object-category personalization beyond a binary speech/nonspeech categorization can substantially improve the viewing experience for some hearing impaired people.},}
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AB - Age demographics have led to an increase in the proportion of the population suffering from some form of hearing loss. The introduction of object-based audio to television broadcasting has the potential to improve the viewing experience for millions of hearing impaired people. Personalization of object-based audio can assist in overcoming difficulties in understanding speech and the narrative audio. This research presented describes a Multi-Dimensional Audio (MDA) implementation of object-based clean audio that presents independent object streams based on object-category elicitation. Evaluations were carried out with hearing impaired people, and participants were able to personalize audio levels independently for four object-categories using an on-screen menu: speech, music, background effects, and foreground effects related to on-screen events. Results show considerable preference variation across subjects but nevertheless the expanding object-category personalization beyond a binary speech/nonspeech categorization can substantially improve the viewing experience for some hearing impaired people.
Age demographics have led to an increase in the proportion of the population suffering from some form of hearing loss. The introduction of object-based audio to television broadcasting has the potential to improve the viewing experience for millions of hearing impaired people. Personalization of object-based audio can assist in overcoming difficulties in understanding speech and the narrative audio. This research presented describes a Multi-Dimensional Audio (MDA) implementation of object-based clean audio that presents independent object streams based on object-category elicitation. Evaluations were carried out with hearing impaired people, and participants were able to personalize audio levels independently for four object-categories using an on-screen menu: speech, music, background effects, and foreground effects related to on-screen events. Results show considerable preference variation across subjects but nevertheless the expanding object-category personalization beyond a binary speech/nonspeech categorization can substantially improve the viewing experience for some hearing impaired people.
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Authors:
Shirley, Ben Guy; Meadows, Melissa; Malak, Fadi; Woodcock, James Stephen; Tidball, Ash
Affiliation:
University of Salford, Salford, UK JAES Volume 65 Issue 4 pp. 293-303; April 2017
Publication Date:
April 28, 2017Import into BibTeX
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