Personalization in object-based audio for accessibility: A review of advancements for hearing impaired listeners

L Ward, BG Shirley - Journal of the Audio …, 2019 - salford-repository.worktribe.com
Hearing loss is widespread and significantly impacts an individual's ability to engage with
broadcast media. Access can be improved through new object-based audio personalization …

Multizone soundfield reproduction with privacy-and quality-based speech masking filters

J Donley, C Ritz, WB Kleijn - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reproducing zones of personal sound is a challenging signal processing problem that has
garnered considerable research interest in recent years. We introduce in this work an …

Dialogue enhancement and listening effort in broadcast audio: A multimodal evaluation

M Torcoli, T Robotham… - 2022 14th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dialogue enhancement (DE) plays a vital role in broadcasting, enabling the personalization
of the relative level between foreground speech and background music and effects. DE has …

Intelligibility versus comprehension: understanding quality of accessible next-generation audio broadcast

B Shirley, L Ward - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2021 - Springer
For traditional broadcasting formats, implementation of accessible audio strategies for hard
of hearing people have used a binary, intelligibility-based approach. In this approach …

MPEG-H Audio for Improving Accessibility in Broadcasting and Streaming

C Simon, M Torcoli, J Paulus - arxiv preprint arxiv:1909.11549, 2019 - arxiv.org
Broadcasting and streaming services still suffer from various levels of accessibility barriers
for a significant portion of the population, limiting the access to information and culture, and …

Dialogue Enhancement with MPEG-H Audio: An update on Technology and Adoption

D Rieger, C Simon, M Torcoli, H Fuchs - Audio Engineering Society …, 2023 - aes.org
Difficulties in following speech on TV due to loud background sounds are a common issue in
broadcasting. Objectbased audio (OBA) systems like MPEG-H Audio can solve this problem …

[BOOK][B] Improving broadcast accessibility for hard of hearing individuals: using object-based audio personalisation and narrative importance

LA Ward - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Technological advances in broadcasting can be the impetus for advances in accessibility
services. For the 11 million individuals in the United Kingdom with some degree of hearing …

Personalization of object-based audio for accessibility using narrative importance

B Shirley, L Ward, ET Chourdakis - 2019 - qmro.qmul.ac.uk
© 2019 for this paper by its authors. An increasing incidence of hearing impairment and of
reported problems with broadcast audio is leading to an increased demand for personalized …

A Data-Driven Investigation of Noise-Adaptive Utterance Generation with Linguistic Modification

A Chingacham, V Demberg… - 2022 IEEE Spoken …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In noisy environments, speech can be hard to understand for humans. Spoken dialog
systems can help to enhance the intelligibility of their output, either by modifying the speech …

User-guided rendering of audio objects using an interactive genetic algorithm

A Wilson, BM Fazenda - Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 2019 - aes.org
Object-based audio allows for personalization of content, perhaps to improve accessibility or
to increase quality of experience more generally. This paper describes the design and …