AES Fall Convention 2023

In daily communication and entertainment applications, audio is frequently delivered over headphones or earbuds and commonly heard near or inside the listener’s head. During this session, attendees will experience and compare audio signal processing approaches aiming to mitigate this well-known phenomenon. Strategies include the addition of artificial acoustic reflections, “augmented-reality” adaptation to listening room acoustics, or room-agnostic “colorless” externalization processing.
The audio presentation will be exclusively via wireless web-based two-channel audio transmission, accessed via each attendee’s personal electronic device connected to their own headphones or earbuds. During most of the session, the audio source will be provided by live microphone capture of the presenter’s voice, enabling the synchronous presentation of audio and visual localization cues.