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Intelligent sound engineering for all
Signal processing challenges to rework music for those with a hearing loss Intelligent sound engineering opens up the possibility of personalizing audio, for example processing and mixing music so the audio quality is better for someone with a hearing loss. People with a hearing impairment can experience problems when listening to music with or without…
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Building bridges
Why engineers and writers could benefit from working together on stories, as we’ve been doing on the Inventive Podcast.
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Inventive Podcast
How engineering is poorly served by its portrayal in the media, and how we’ve teamed up with fiction writers to tackle this in the Inventive Podcast.
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Halloumi glass harmonica
How I made a halloumi glass harmonica for a TV demo and played Ode to Joy … just.
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Clear facemasks: early tests
Some experiments on clear facemasks we’re doing at Salford University to improve communication for PPE.
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Acoustic Advent 2020
The new windows from the 2020 Acoustic Advent run by @trevor_cox @salfordacoustic
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Stonehenge: Whispering Gallery?
Searching (in vain) for whispering gallery effects in Stonehenge. Pretty FDTD simulations and measurements in our Acoustic Scale Model of Stonehenge.
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Speech in Stonehenge
How loud was speech and music inside Stonehenge in 2,200 BC? And what might that say about how the site was used by our ancestors?
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What’s in an (artificial) voice?
An introduction to a new experiment looking at how we respond to artificial voices from BBC R&D and University of Salford.
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Podcast Headphone Spatialiser
The Salford Acoustics’ SpatialPodcast plug-in is designed for podcasters wishing to add more dimensional sound to their recordings.