{"id":260,"date":"2017-01-05T14:25:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/?page_id=260"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:39:10","slug":"object-based-clean-audio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Object-based Clean Audio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An ongoing research area working with broadcast technology providers leading to publications and public demonstrations at <a href=\"http:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/2015\/09\/23\/ibc-2015-tv-sound-for-hearing-impaired-people\/\">IBC in 2015<\/a> and 2016 (Amsterdam), and NAB in 2016 (Las Vegas). Some of this work has been supported by&nbsp;DTS Inc. who were kind enough to host demonstrations of the work at recent broadcast trade shows and conferences and to provide supporting technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following on from the <a href=\"http:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/clean-audio-project\/\">Clean Audio Project<\/a>, and motivated by new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/rd\/blog\/2013-05-object-based-approach-to-broadcasting\">object-based audio<\/a> broadcast formats the&nbsp;research aims to&nbsp;investigate the potential for object-based audio broadcast to deliver an improved viewing experience for older and hearing impaired people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UK Council on Defaness Update<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presentation given to UK Council on Deafness in 2021. This was an update from our <a href=\"https:\/\/ukcod.org\/object-based-audio\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/ukcod.org\/object-based-audio\/\">previous 2017 presentation at the same event<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-uk-council-on-deafness wp-block-embed-uk-council-on-deafness\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"D2ztUVTDin\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukcod.org\/object-based-audio\/\">Object based audio<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cObject based audio\u201d \u2014 UK Council On Deafness\" src=\"https:\/\/ukcod.org\/object-based-audio\/embed\/#?secret=lq1mVveA3P#?secret=D2ztUVTDin\" data-secret=\"D2ztUVTDin\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TechShare 2020 Panel on Accessible Immersive Experiences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Creating accessible immersive experiences for multi-media audiences is at the forefront of industry best practice. Let&#8217;s hear from the experts who are pushing the frontiers of future, inclusive experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chair: Dr. Ben Shirley, Acoustic Research Centre, University of Salford<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panelists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Larry Goldberg, Senior Director &amp; Head of Accessibility, Verizon Media<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr Chris Hughes, Computer Science Lecturer, University of Salford<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rupert Brun, Broadcast Consultant, Fraunhofer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jamie Hindhaugh, Chief Operating Officer, BT Sport<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abilitynet.podbean.com\/e\/tsp28-panel-accessible-immersive-experiences\/\">Link to recording &amp; transcript<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Journal Articles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aes.org\/e-lib\/browse.cfm?elib=18562\">Personalized Object-Based Audio for Hearing Impaired TV Viewers<br><\/a>Shirley, B. G., Meadows, M., Malak, F., Woodcock, J. S., &amp; Tidball, A. &nbsp;Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 65(4), 293-303. (2017).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/benshirleypubs\/config\/pagetemplates\/publication-files\/Shirley%20Oldfield%20Object%20Based%20Clean%20Audio.pdf?attredirects=0&amp;d=1\">Clean Audio for TV broadcast: An Object-Based Approach for Hearing-Impaired Viewers<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/researcher\/2034237778_Ben_Shirley\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ben Shirley<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/researcher\/2051143821_Rob_Oldfield\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rob Oldfield<br><\/a>Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(4), 245-256. (2015).<br>This article is open access and can also be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.aes.org\/forum\/pubs\/journal\/?elib=17582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Audio Engineering Society Electronic Library<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blog Posts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/benshirley.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/23\/ibc-2015-tv-sound-for-hearing-impaired-people\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">IBC 2015: TV Sound for Hearing Impaired&nbsp;People<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/benshirley.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/18\/clean-audio-for-tv-broadcast-an-object-based-approach-for-hearing-impaired-viewers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Clean Audio for TV broadcast: An Object-Based Approach for Hearing-Impaired Viewers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/abacus\">ABACus&nbsp;project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Description An ongoing research area working with broadcast technology providers leading to publications and public demonstrations at IBC in 2015 and 2016 (Amsterdam), and NAB in 2016 (Las Vegas). Some of this work has been supported by&nbsp;DTS Inc. who were kind enough to host demonstrations of the work at recent broadcast trade shows and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-constrained-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-260","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Object-based Clean Audio - Accessible Audio Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Object-based Clean Audio - Accessible Audio Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Project Description An ongoing research area working with broadcast technology providers leading to publications and public demonstrations at IBC in 2015 and 2016 (Amsterdam), and NAB in 2016 (Las Vegas). Some of this work has been supported by&nbsp;DTS Inc. who were kind enough to host demonstrations of the work at recent broadcast trade shows and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Accessible Audio Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-08T08:39:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/object-based-clean-audio\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/object-based-clean-audio\\\/\",\"name\":\"Object-based Clean Audio - Accessible Audio Research\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-01-05T14:25:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-08T08:39:10+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/object-based-clean-audio\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/object-based-clean-audio\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/object-based-clean-audio\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Object-based Clean Audio\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/\",\"name\":\"Accessible Audio Research\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Accessible Audio Research\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/80\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/1473754822-salfordlogo_rgb__web_72640x360.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/80\\\/2018\\\/06\\\/1473754822-salfordlogo_rgb__web_72640x360.jpg\",\"width\":470,\"height\":226,\"caption\":\"Accessible Audio Research\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hub.salford.ac.uk\\\/accessibleaudio\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Object-based Clean Audio - Accessible Audio Research","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Object-based Clean Audio - Accessible Audio Research","og_description":"Project Description An ongoing research area working with broadcast technology providers leading to publications and public demonstrations at IBC in 2015 and 2016 (Amsterdam), and NAB in 2016 (Las Vegas). Some of this work has been supported by&nbsp;DTS Inc. who were kind enough to host demonstrations of the work at recent broadcast trade shows and [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/","og_site_name":"Accessible Audio Research","article_modified_time":"2026-06-08T08:39:10+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/","url":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/","name":"Object-based Clean Audio - Accessible Audio Research","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-01-05T14:25:54+00:00","dateModified":"2026-06-08T08:39:10+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/object-based-clean-audio\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Object-based Clean Audio"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/#website","url":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/","name":"Accessible Audio Research","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/#organization","name":"Accessible Audio Research","url":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2018\/06\/1473754822-salfordlogo_rgb__web_72640x360.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2018\/06\/1473754822-salfordlogo_rgb__web_72640x360.jpg","width":470,"height":226,"caption":"Accessible Audio Research"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28178,"href":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260\/revisions\/28178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}