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Towards an audio attribute framework for understanding the perception of reverberant spaces elicitation and clustering methods based on participant expectation

Authors: Child, Luke; Ford, Natanya

AES Convention 150 · Paper 10467 · May 2021

Abstract

When used in perceptual audio evaluation, elicitation methods produce a wide variety of raw and unorganized text data. Although at first ambiguous, elicited data can be organized into themes and attributes that are intrinsic to the listener experience. This paper seeks to compare the trends found in descriptions of reverberant locations from memory, isolating key attributes and phrases present in descriptions. These attributes are then cleaned, validated, and clustered to form a series of key parent attributes that encompass the descriptions of the original attributes. Methods for the optimization of each stage are discussed, alongside applications for understanding and utilizing the attributes in future implementations of digital reverberation.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 150
AES Convention
150
Paper number
10467
Publication date
May 6, 2021
Session subject
Psychoacoustics
Affiliation
University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper