Spatial Audio Quality Inventory (SAQI). Test Manual.

Lindau, Alexander

Spatial Audio Quality Inventory (SAQI). Test Manual.

dc.contributor.author	Lindau, Alexander
dc.date.accessioned	2015-04-09T13:23:00Z
dc.date.available	2015-04-09T13:23:00Z
dc.date.issued	2014-02-27
dc.description	The 'SAQI. Test Manual. v1.2' documents the complete German and English version of the SAQI. It serves as an user-oriented introduction giving valuable hints for practical application, e.g., by referring to the whisPER Matlab toolbox v1.9.0 which features a full implementation of a SAQI test. Additional resources are provided in a zip-container. It includes relevant project-related publications, illustrative audio examples, empirical test data sets, and Matlab functions for convenient later statistical analysis and plotting of SAQI test results. Folder structure in 'SAQI. Test Manual. v1.2. Additional files.zip': /1 references /2 audio files /3 mfiles Further related resources: http://www.ak.tu-berlin.de/saqi http://www.ak.tu-berlin.de/whisper	en
dc.description.abstract	The perceptual evaluation of virtual acoustic environments may be based on overall criteria such as plausibility and authenticity or by using catalogues of more detailed auditory qualities as, e.g., loudness, timbre, localization, etc. However, only the latter will be suitable to reveal specific shortcomings of a simulation under test and allow for a directed technical improvement. To this end a common vocabulary of relevant perceptual attributes appears desirable. Existing vocabularies for the evaluation of sound field synthesis, spatialization technologies and virtual environments were often generated ad hoc by the authors or have focused only on specific perceptual aspects. To overcome these limitations, we have developed a Spatial Audio Quality Inventory (SAQI) for the evaluation of virtual acoustic environments. It is a consensus vocabulary comprising 48 verbal descriptors of perceptual qualities assumed to be of practical relevance when comparing virtual environments to real or imagined references or amongst each other. The vocabulary was generated by a Focus Group of 21 German speaking experts for virtual acoustics. Five additional experts helped verifying the unambiguity of all descriptors and the related explanations. Moreover, an English translation was generated and verified by eight bilingual experts.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	DFG, 174776315, FOR 1557: Simulation and Evaluation of Acoustical Environments (SEACEN)	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/157.2
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-1.2
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.issupplementedby	http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-31
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dc.subject.other	test manual	en
dc.subject.other	questionnaire	en
dc.subject.other	spatial audio	en
dc.subject.other	perceptual evaluation	en
dc.subject.other	SAQI	en
dc.subject.other	spatial audio quality inventory	en
dc.subject.other	SAQI-GER	en
dc.subject.other	SAQI-EN	en
dc.subject.other	descriptive language	en
dc.title	Spatial Audio Quality Inventory (SAQI). Test Manual.	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type.version	updatedVersion	en
tub.accessrights.dnb	free	*
tub.affiliation	Fak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften::Inst. Sprache und Kommunikation::FG Audiokommunikation	de
tub.affiliation	Verbundforschung::Forschungsgruppen (FOR)::FOR 1557 - SEACEN	de
tub.affiliation.faculty	Fak. 1 Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften	de
tub.affiliation.faculty	Verbundforschung	de
tub.affiliation.group	FG Audiokommunikation	de
tub.affiliation.group	FOR 1557 - SEACEN	de
tub.affiliation.institute	Inst. Sprache und Kommunikation	de
tub.affiliation.institute	Forschungsgruppen (FOR)	de
tub.publisher.universityorinstitution	Technische Universität Berlin	en