This paper reports on the development of a unique software prototype that combines digital information spaces with sound and intelligent agent support. This prototype is innovative in its use of digital space as a mechanism for arranging image based information for presentation scenarios. Working with a spatial approach to digital environments, this research presents the prototype, and examines...

0003-682X/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.06.008 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +33 1 4478 1609; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (P. Susini). The aim of the study presented here is to examine the effects of instructions on the perception of a sequence of interior car sounds in three different conditions. In each condition, participants listened to the same...

Is the sound of a train whistling more similar to the sound of the wheels of a train or to the sound of your whistle? This question addresses the comparative relevance of acoustical and conceptual information to the perceived similarity of sound events. The answer to this question has theoretical and methodological consequences for the field of sound source perception, and for the behaviorally ...

Memory is a constructive and organizational process. Instead of being stored with all the fine details, external information is reorganized and structured at certain spatiotemporal scales. It is well acknowledged that time plays a central role in audition by segmenting sound inputs into temporal chunks of appropriate length. However, it remains largely unknown whether critical temporal structur...

Automatic lyrics-to-audio alignment techniques have been drawing attention in the last years and various studies have been made in this field. The objective of lyrics-to-audio alignment is to estimate a temporal relationship between lyrics and musical audio signals and can be applied to various applications such as Karaoke-style lyrics display. In this contribution, we provide an overview of re...

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Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) estimates can be used for passive acoustic multiple sound source localization with microphone arrays. The TDOA estimation is based on the cross-correlation function of two signals of a microphone pair. Existing systems assume only one dominant sound source per analysis frame rejecting the localization information of other active sources present in the acoustic ...

Recent conversation in both the sonic and generative art communities envision a practice which engages with both formal and cultural or conceptual concerns. At the same time there is a sense amongst practitioners in the generative arts community that there is room to develop the methods of the practice. This paper sketches a simple, practical approach to generative sound art which draws from ph...

The way in which sounds interact and interfere with each other (both acoustically and perceptually) has an important influence on how well an auditory display can convey information. While spatial separation of simultaneous sound sources has been shown to be very effective when a listener must report the content of one source and ignore another source (a condition known as selective attention),...