A Convincing binaural sound reprodudion via headphones requires fofllfer the virfual sound source signals wifh head relafed transfer funcfions (HRTFs). Furfhermore, humnns are able lo improve fheir locdimfion capabilifies by smoll unconscious head movemenfs. Therefore it is imporfant fa incorporate head-tracking. This yields fheproblem of high-quality, rime-varying interpolation between dvferen...

A distortion-weighted glimpsing metric developed for estimating monaural speech intelligibility is extended to predict binaural speech intelligibility in noise. Two aspects of binaural listening, the better ear effect and the binaural advantage, are taken into account in the new metric, which predicts intelligibility using monaural target and masker signals and their location, and is therefore ...

2000. In the past 10 years, the binaural penetration rate has improved 13 points to 68%. Since 1994, we have seen both slight increases in BTE usage as well as significant increases in “invisible” ITC hearing instruments. Since the previous MarkeTrak survey, programmable/DSP technology has grown from 13% to 28% of hearing instrument sales, according to the survey, while instruments without volu...

The goal of this study is to retrieve useful information about the reactions of listeners to different recording techniques, namely binaural and stereo. This has been done comparing different mixes of the same song. Each mix is obtained from stereophonic and binaural recordings, or processing proximity recordings with stereo panning, binaural synthesis or a hybrid approach. The comparison is ma...

Soundscape, earlier proposed by the Canadian composer and ecologist R. Murray Schafer in 1960s, contains a large amount of environmental information and event information for the expression of specific historic areas, the survival status of a particular nation or people, and especially, the native environment has important significance. 22 binaural recorded soundscape samples collected from Gua...

Although virtual audio displays are capable of realistically simulating relatively distant sound sources, they are not yet able to accurately reproduce the spatial auditory cues that occur when sound sources are located near the listener’s head. Researchers have long recognized that the binaural difference cues that dominate auditory localization are independent of distance beyond 1 m but chang...