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 …

Object-based audio has great capacity for production and delivery of adaptive and
personalizable content. This can be used to improve the accessibility of complex content for …

Casualty Accessible and Enhanced (A&E) Audio is the first public trial of accessible audio
technology using a narrative importance approach. This trial allows viewers to personalize …

This paper describes how user engagement affects their trust in audio guide agents to adapt
to their environment. Audio guide agents are expected to be used more in the future …

Technological advances in broadcasting can be the impetus for advances in accessibility
services. For the 11 million individuals in the United Kingdom with some degree of hearing …

© 2019 for this paper by its authors. An increasing incidence of hearing impairment and of
reported problems with broadcast audio is leading to an increased demand for personalized …

Spatial audio object coding (SAOC) is an effective method to transmit multiple audio objects.
Audio systems can provide personalized services under this framework. However, this …

There is an increasing number of consumers of broadcast audio who suffer from a degree of
hearing impairment. One of the methods developed for tackling this issue consists of …

Spatial audio systems are capable of rendering moving sound sources. This is becoming
more common in commercial and domestic environments, driven by interest in spatial audio …

Historically, the junior engineer is an individual who would assist the sound engineer to
produce a mix by performing a number of mixing and pre-processing tasks ahead of the …