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
View Poster here - 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