Subjective and Objective Evaluation of Sound

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Foreword
• Loudness scaling in environmental psychoacoustics
• Intelligibility in classrooms
• Relations between attributes of the perception space of a sound transmitted by a loudspeaker and its objective parameters
• Perceptual scaling and psychophysical relations in sound reproduction
• Subjective evaluation of a sound emitted by a loudspeaker in correlation with its steady-state and transient responses
• Indian drums and Chinese bells: Measured spectrum and perceived pitch
• Listening and measuring. How to find a common base in acoustics?
• The problem of equivalent distance from line source of finite length in noise level evaluation
• Some notes on the equal loudness contours measurement procedures
• Analysis of long term average spectra of quality rated grand and upright pianos
• Air absorption in terms of loudness and a-weighted sound pressure level
• Subjective and objective quality assessments of loudspeakers
• Criteria for the acoustical design of rooms
• Subjective evaluation of sounds which vary with time and move in space
• Loudness and intelligibility as speech transmission quality evaluation criteria
• The range of sound pressure level and the range of loudness in musical instruments
• Psychoacoustic considerations in the design and specification of sound-reproduction equipment
• Computer controlled listening experiments
• Perception of random changes in frequency and its relation to speech
• Physical and perceptual evaluation of changes in the frequency structure of sound propagating in a room
• Deviation in loudness and annoyance estimates of environmental sounds as a result of their different intrusiveness
• Line versus continuous spectra in vowel recognition
• Some resonance effects in rooms and their influence on the quality of musical signals transmission
• Personal characteristic on subjective evaluation of recorded music
• High quality audio bitrate reduction considering the psychoacoustic phenomena of human sound perception
• Psychophysical aspects of the perception of speech and music in rooms
• Subjective and objective evaluation of onset transients in rooms