Abstract In the Travel and Tourism sector, mobile applications could do much more than
simply provide information about specific locations or recommend places and itineraries …

Hearing loss is widespread and significantly impacts an individual's ability to engage with
broadcast media. Access can be improved through new object-based audio personalization …

A new television audio system based on the MPEG-H Audio standard is being designed and
tested to offer interactive and immersive sound, employing the standard's audio objects …

Age demographics have led to an increase in the proportion of the population suffering from
some form of hearing loss. The introduction of object-based audio to television broadcast …

As the percentage of the population with hearing loss increases, broadcasters are receiving
more complaints about the difficulty in understanding dialog in the presence of background …

Dialogue Enhancement (DE) is one of the most promising applications of user interactivity
enabled by object-based audio broadcasting. DE allows personalization of the relative level …

Media consumption in broadcasting is heading towards high degrees of content
personalization also in audio thanks to next-generation audio systems. It is thus crucial to …

In audio production background ducking facilitates speech intelligibility while keeping the
background track enjoyable. Technical details for recommendable ducking practices are not …

This chapter aims to focus on the concept of accessible design in the domain of audiovisual
translation (AVT) which has increasingly expanded into the field of media accessibility (MA) …

Dialogue enhancement (DE) plays a vital role in broadcasting, enabling the personalization
of the relative level between foreground speech and background music and effects. DE has …