(Ebook) Perceptual Audio Evaluation: Theory, Method and Application by Søren Bech, Nick Zacharov ISBN 0470869232

(Ebook) Perceptual Audio Evaluation: Theory, Method and Application by Søren Bech, Nick Zacharov ISBN 0470869232

A growing number of new technologies (e.g. low bit-rate coding) are based on specific properties of the auditory system, which are often highly non-linear. This means that the auditory quality of such systems cannot be measured by traditional physical measures (such as distortion, frequency response etc.), but only by perceptual evaluations in the form of listening tests. Perceptual Audio Evaluation provides a comprehensive guide to the many variables that need to be considered before, during and after experiments. Including the selection of the content of the programme material to be reproduced, technical aspects of the production of the programme material, the experimental set-up including calibration, and the statistical planning of the experiment and subsequent analysis of the data.