On the Influence of Cultural Differences on the Perception of Audio Coding Artifacts in Music

Dick S, Zhang J, Qin Y, Schinkel-Bielefeld N, Leschanowsky AK, Nagel F. On the Influence of Cultural Differences on the Perception of Audio Coding Artifacts in Music. In: AES Convention 145. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper 10030. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19756

@inproceedings{Dick2018_19756,
  author = {Dick, Sascha and Zhang, Jiandong and Qin, Yili and Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja and Leschanowsky, Anna Katharina and Nagel, Frederik},
  title = {{On the Influence of Cultural Differences on the Perception of Audio Coding Artifacts in Music}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 145},
  note = {Paper 10030},
  year = {2018},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19756}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - On the Influence of Cultural Differences on the Perception of Audio Coding Artifacts in Music
AU  - Dick, Sascha
AU  - Zhang, Jiandong
AU  - Qin, Yili
AU  - Schinkel-Bielefeld, Nadja
AU  - Leschanowsky, Anna Katharina
AU  - Nagel, Frederik
T2  - AES Convention 145
M1  - Paper 10030
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/10/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19756
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Modern audio codecs are used all over the world, reaching listeners with many different cultures and languages. This study investigates if and how cultural background influences the perception and preference of different audio coding artifacts, focusing on musical content. A subjective listening test was designed to directly compare different types of audio coding and was performed with Mandarin Chinese and German speaking listeners. Overall comparison showed largely consistent results, affirming the validity of the proposed test method. Differential comparison indicates preferences for certain artifacts in different listener groups, e.g., Chinese listeners tended to grade tonality mismatch higher and pre-echoes worse compared to German listeners, and musicians preferred bandwidth limitation over tonality mismatch when compared to non-musicians.
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