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Engineering Brief

Predicting Objective Difficulty in Peak Identification Task of Technical Ear Training

Authors: Marui, Atsushi; Kamekawa, Toru

AES Convention 147 · Paper 565 · October 2019

Abstract

Technical ear training is a method to improve the ability to focus on a speci?c sound attribute and to communicate using the vocabularies and units shared in Audio Engineering. In designing the successful course in a sound engineers’ educational institution, it is essential to have a gradual increase in the task dif?culty. In this e-Brief, the authors investigated creating a predictive model of objective dif?culty for a given music excerpt when it is used in a peak identi?cation task of technical ear training. The models consisting of six or seven acoustic features, including statistics on attack transients and power spectrum, showed overall better results.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 147
AES Convention
147
Paper number
565
Publication date
October 6, 2019
Session subject
Recording and Production
Affiliation
Tokyo University of the Arts, Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Engineering Brief