Audio Communication
| Lecturer: | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard U. Seeber |
| Assistant: | Matthieu Kuntz |
| Cycle: | Sommersemester |
| Target Group: | Wahlmodul Bachelor EI (EI 0602) Wahlmodul Bachelor Informatik Wahlmodul Technologie- und Managementorientierte BWL |
| ECTS: | 5 |
| Breadth: | 2/1/0 (Lecture/Exercise course/Practical course) |
| Language: | German |
| Exam: | written, 60 min. For the oral repeat exam in the winter semester candidates are required to contact us for individual exam times well in advance. |
| Time & Location: | Lecture (in German): Wednesday, 09:45 - 11:15 hours, N3815 Exercise course: Wednesday, 11:30 - 12:15 hours, N3815 |
Topics
- Overview of audio communication
- The physical basis for audio
- Acoustic variables: Sound pressure, velocity, intensity, impedance
- Sound fields
- Sound conversion: Microphones and loudspeakers
- Sound storage: Record, CD, SACD, DVD-Audio, MP3
- Audiotory physiology
- Peripheral hearing system
- Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs)
- Central hearing system
- Psychoacoustics
- Methods
- Auditory field, masking
- Critical bands
- Loudness
- Pitch and pitch strength
- Just noticable differences
- Sharpness
- Fluctuation strength, roughness
- Binaural hearing: binaural cues, sound localization
- Applications: Selection of current research topics from
- Audiology and hearing devices
- Room acoustics
- Speech evaluation
- Audio technology
- Sound quality design
Excercise Course
Numerical problem excercises, audio demonstrations on basic aspects of electro- and psychoacoustics and their application in music studios, audio coding, noise measurement, audiology, speech testing, room acoustics etc.
Literature
| Fastl, H.; Zwicker, E.: | Psychoacoustics – Facts and Models. Springer-Verlag 2007, 3rd Edition |
| Terhardt, E.: | Akustische Kommunikation: Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 1998. |
| Yost, W.: | Fundamentals of Hearing, An Introduction, 5. Auflage, Brill Academic Pub, 2013. |
| Blauert, J.: | Spatial Hearing. MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1996. |
| Moore, B.C.J.: | An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing. Emerald Group Publishing, 6th Ed., London 2012 |
| Zollner, M.; Zwicker, E.: | Elektroakustik. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, korr. Nachdruck, 2003. |