Advances in Thunder Sound Synthesis

Fineberg E, Walters J, Reiss J. Advances in Thunder Sound Synthesis. In: AES Convention 152. Audio Engineering Society; 2022. Paper 10574. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21687

@inproceedings{Fineberg2022_21687,
  author = {Fineberg, Eva and Walters, Jack and Reiss, Joshua},
  title = {{Advances in Thunder Sound Synthesis}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 152},
  note = {Paper 10574},
  year = {2022},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21687}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Advances in Thunder Sound Synthesis
AU  - Fineberg, Eva
AU  - Walters, Jack
AU  - Reiss, Joshua
T2  - AES Convention 152
M1  - Paper 10574
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21687
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - A recent comparative study evaluated all known thunder synthesis techniques in terms of their perceptual realness. The findings concluded that none of the synthesised audio extracts seemed as realistic as the genuine phenomenon. The work presented herein is motivated by those findings, and attempts to create a synthesised sound effect of thunder indistinguishable from a real recording. The technique supplements an existing implementation with physics-inspired, signal-based design elements intended to simulate environmental occurrences. In a listening test conducted with over 50 participants, this new implementation was perceived as the most realistic synthesised sound, though still distinguishable from a real recording. Further improvements to the model, based on insights from the listening test, were also implemented and described herein.
ER  -