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Engineering Brief

Presenting the S3A Object-Based Audio Drama Dataset

Authors: Woodcock, James; Pike, Chris; Melchior, Frank; Coleman, Philip; Franck, Andreas; Hilton, Adrian

AES Convention 140 · Paper 255 · May 2016

Abstract

This engineering brief reports on the production of three object-based audio drama scenes commissioned as part of the S3A project. 3D reproduction and an object-based workflow were considered and implemented from the initial script commissioning through to the final mix of the scenes. The scenes are being made available freely and without restriction as Broadcast Wave Format files containing all objects as separate tracks and all metadata necessary to render the scenes as an XML chunk in the header conforming to the Audio Definition Model specification (Recommendation ITU-R BS.2076 [1]). It is hoped that these scenes will find use in perceptual experiments and in the testing of 3D audio systems. The scenes are available via the following link: http://dx.doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.3043921.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 140
AES Convention
140
Paper number
255
Publication date
May 6, 2016
Session subject
eBriefs: Posters
Affiliation
University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK; BBC Research and Development, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK; University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Engineering Brief