Publications

Full Paper Peer-Reviewed 

• The Effect of Situation-Specific Non-Speech Acoustic Cues on the Intelligibility of Speech in Noise
  L Ward, B Shirley, Y Tang and WJ Davies
  Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, August, 2017
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Conference Proceedings 

• Intelligibility vs. Comprehension: Understanding Quality of Accessible Next-generation Audio Broadcast
  B Shirley and L Ward
  Understanding Media Accessibility Quality Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June, 2018
• Big Pictures and Little Screens: How television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers.
  L Ward, B Shirley and WJ Davies
  Proceedings of the 33rd Institute of Acoustics `Reproduced Sound’ Conference, Nottingham, UK, November 2017
• Television Dialogue; Balancing Audibility, Attention and Accessibility
  L Ward and B Shirley
  Conference on Accessibility in Television, Film and Interactive Media, York, October 2017
• Accessible Broadcast Audio Personalisation for Hard of Hearing Listeners
  L Ward
  TVX 2017, Amsterdam, June, 2017
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• Turning up the Background Noise; the Effects of Salient Non-Speech Audio Elements on Dialogue Intelligibility in Complex Acoustic Scenes
  L Ward, B Shirley and WJ Davies
  Institute for Acoustics’ Reproduced Sound, Southampton, November, 2016

Invited Talks

• Integrating Expert Knowledge into Intelligent and Interactive Systems
  L Ward
  3rd Workshop on Intelligent Music Production – Huddersfield, 14/9/2018
• Accessible Broadcast Audio Customisation: opportunities from new broadcast technologies
  L Ward and B Shirley
  UK Council on Deafness ‘Enhancing Deaf Access – Telecommunication and Broadcasting’ Conference, BT Tower, London, 16/11/2017
• Break it down for me: How object-based broadcasting can increase accessibility
  L Ward
  RadioTechCon, IET Savoy Place, London, 27/11/2017
• Snap, Crackle and Pop; Understanding the relationship between dialogue intelligibility and SFX for accessible broadcast audio
  L Ward
  AES Northwest Meeting, University of York, York, 08/05/2017