Paper Title:
Audio Engineering and Psychoacoustics:
Matching Signals to the Final Receiver, the Human Auditory System
Authors:
Eberhard Zwicker and U. Tilmann Zwicker
Main Point(s):
The paper study the problems in audio
engineering from a different perspective: the human auditory system,
the final receiver. The efficiency and undistortion from this new
perspective require adaption of processing and transmitting sound. The
adaption is fulfilled by using tools of two transformations:
transformation of frequency to critical-band rate and transformation
of level to specific loudness. The paper also includes some application
examples.
Possible Use(s):
The method proposed in the paper aims at
delivering "compressed" but lossless info to human auditory system. So
it is very useful to any audio engineering (transmission and storage).
Extensions:
Using the ideas to implement more practical applications.
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