It aims at targeting the multifaceted area of research devoted to the complex relation between environment and sound, a relation that still needs to be investigated. Indeed, we are literally immersed into sound: as Handel says, " Listening puts me in the world " ([1], xi). In this sense, a phenomenology of listening, delving deeply into the philosophical and psychological aspects of sound perce...

The purposes of this study were (1) to develop a new test of environmental sound perception, the Environmental Sounds Perception Test (EST), (2) to compare the performance of experienced cochlear implant (CI) recipients with that of age-equivalent normally hearing (NH) listeners using this new test, and (3) to pilot test its clinical use as a pre-to-post assessment tool. The closed-set EST cons...

In this article we explain how perceptual control of synthesis processes can be achieved through a multidisciplinary approach relating physical and signal properties of sound sources to evocations induced by sounds. This approach is applied to environmental and abstract sounds in 3 different experiments. In the first experiment a perceptual control of synthesized impact sounds evoking sound sou...

Most significantly, user customized control for a sound of digital audio in a smart home must be able to adjust many environmental contexts simultaneously. A sound is affected by a temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure. And user must tune the sound of digital audio every time according to environmental contexts. In this paper, we developed a customized user interface for a remote cont...

This paper presents an object oriented layered software architecture for describing and designing environmental (everyday) sounds in user interfaces based on a new sound model (audio framework). This new architecture is defined by different layers including the physical layer, system sound software layer, sound analyser/synthesiser layer and the interface layer. The sound model described can be...

This paper presents an object oriented layered software architecture for describing and designing environmental (everyday) sounds in user interfaces based on a new sound model (audio framework). This new architecture is defined by different layers including the physical layer, system sound software layer, sound analyser/synthesiser layer and the interface layer. The sound model described can be...

Studies that have dealt with the effect of sound spectral and temporal properties on environmental sound identification have focused on a narrow range of sounds [1, 2, 3]. The purpose of the research was to evaluate the effect of sound temporal characteristics on the identification of 72 different environmental sounds, 29 of them having a rhythmic structure. We used a gating paradigm, involving...

In real acoustic environments, humans communicate with each other through speech by focusing on the target speech among environmental sounds. We can easily identify the target sound from other environmental sounds. For hands-free speech recognition, the identification of the target speech from environmental sounds is imperative. This mechanism may also be important for a selfmoving robot to sen...

We present a robust environmental sound classification approach, based on reassignment method and logGabor filters. In this approach the reassigned spectrogram is passed through a bank of 12 log-Gabor filter concatenation applied to three spectrogram patches, and the outputs are averaged and underwent an optimal feature selection procedure based on a mutual information criterion. The proposed m...