A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of supervising two of our talented students on BSc Professional Sound and Video Technology (Liam Funnel and Isabel Garriock) as they worked on an interesting project on media access requirements for people with dementia. Very happy to (rather belatedly) announce the publication of their combined work […]
new blog post and link to open access JAES article here. Or click on the pic. For a long time now Ofcom and broadcasters have received complaints that speech on TV can be difficult, or impossible, to understand. The problem is of course much worse for viewers who with even quite mild hearing loss. Reasons are varied and […]
Interesting accessible media conference coming up in York from the Enhancing Audio Description project. Conference on Accessibility in Film, Television, and Interactive Media Saturday 14th October – Sunday 15th October 2017 Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York Interesting conference Source: Conference – Enhancing Audio Description
Salford researcher Lauren Ward speaking at AES event in York next week. Source: Audio Engineering Society UK » Snap, Crackle and Pop; Understanding the relationship between dialogue intelligibility and SFX for accessible broadcast audio.
Conversation article about some of our work on accessible TV sound from Salford researcher Lauren Ward Source: Speak up! Why some TV dialogue is so hard to understand
Action on Hearing Loss blog post about our visit there to discuss accessible audio research Source: Personalisable Broadcast Audio: opportunities from new broadcast technologies – Action On Hearing Loss: RNID
For PhD students working on interaction, TV and online media Deadline extensions reminder! The deadlines for submitting TVX Doctoral Consortium has been extended to March 30! Why don’t you take this week to plan and start writing your proposal for an awesome PhD work update – 2-4 page paper by 30th March, poster on acceptance. Deadlines […]
Announcing a call for papers for our workshop at TVX2017. The workshop title is In-Programme Personalisation for Broadcast and we would very much like to see submissions relating to broadcast accessibility in addition to other areas of personalisation. Full details at the following link: http://dmtlab.bcu.ac.uk/tvx2017/ The growing demand for personalisation provides endless research, development and innovation […]
IBC 2015 Demonstration of Object Based Clean Audio The problems of hearing impaired people watching TV have been well documented of late. Loud music, background noise and other factors can ruin the enjoyment of TV for many people with hearing loss – around 10 million people in the UK according to Action on Hearing Loss. In […]
Update: I just uploaded a new journal article published last month in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. Happily the University of Salford paid for it to be open access as part of their … Source: Clean Audio for TV broadcast: An Object-Based Approach for Hearing-Impaired Viewers | Organising Thoughts