Add terms & reorganize

[JonBoley]

I may want to split up this issue...

• Create a wiki page to list potential terms / definitions / examples
• Create a web page for dictionary
• Add audio examples (coded in web audio)
• Update the wheel

Sean Olive suggests four main categories:

• spectral (e.g., bandwidth, balance, etc.)
• spatial (maybe split this into source location & environment?)
• dynamics (e.g., dynamic range, loudness, etc)
• distortion (should noise be here too?)

Some potential terms to add:

• http://seanolive.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html
• http://www.mackie.com/pdf/glossary.pdf
• http://www.crutchfield.com/S-sZUt6DABSt8/learn/homeaudio/introguideexcerpt.html
• http://www.head-fi.org/a/describing-sound-a-glossary
• http://www.sgheadphones.net/index.php?showtopic=134
• http://www.stereophile.com/content/sounds-audio-glossary-glossary
• http://www.integracoustics.com/MUG/MUG/bbs/stereophile_audio-glossary.html
• http://www.diyaudioandvideo.com/FAQ/Sound/
• http://audioundone.com/sound-quality-glossary
• http://www.grahambrock.com/audio.htm
• http://lossenderosstudio.com/glossary.php?index=b
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130207072912/http://www.pcmusicstuff.com/terminology.html
• http://www.deltamedia.com/resource/recording_terms.html
• http://www.recordingconnection.com/glossary/
• http://audioczar.blogspot.com/2012/04/definition-of-audio-terms-in-my-own.html
• http://www.testing1212.co.uk/
• http://www.sonicscoop.com/2011/08/25/dancing-about-architecture-a-dictionary-of-audio-terms/
• http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-critical-listeners-lexicon-tas-207-1/
• http://web.media.mit.edu/~mihir/documents/mihir_sound_survey_poster.pdf
• http://www.lam.jussieu.fr/Publications/Articles/JASA_Fritz_2012.pdf

Also:

• Quesnel, René. "Timbral Ear Trainer: Adaptive, interactive training of listening skills for evaluation of timbre." Audio Engineering Society Convention 100. Audio Engineering Society, 1996.
• Neher, Tobias, Francis J. Rumsey, and Tim Brookes. "Training of listeners for the evaluation of spatial sound reproduction." Audio Engineering Society Convention 112. Audio Engineering Society, 2002. ( http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/research/cat/psychoac/papers/merimaaaes117.pdf )

[JonBoley]

Major categories:
Loudness
Pitch
Timbre
Spatial

Look at MDS papers for timbre
Look at perceptual coding descriptions
Look at noise reduction artifacts like running water, etc

Also, check out the wheel here:
Letowski, T. "Sound quality assessment: concepts and criteria," in Audio Engineering Society Convention 87, 1988.

[JonBoley]

Another resource:
Wältermann, Marcel, et al. "Underlying quality dimensions of modern telephone connections." INTERSPEECH. 2006.

• Noisiness
• Continuity
• Coloration
• Loudness

[JonBoley]

Another source:
Gabrielsson, Alf, and Håkan Sjögren. "Perceived sound quality of sound‐reproducing systems." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 65.4 (1979): 1019-1033.

[JonBoley]

Mihir Sarker mentioned that he had done this work:

M. Sarkar, C. Lan, J. Diaz, B. Vercoe, “The effect of musical experience on describing sounds with everyday words” [abstract], 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Portland, OR, May 18-22, 2009.

M. Sarkar, B. Vercoe, and Y. Yang, “Words that describe timbre: a study of auditory perception through language” [abstract], Language and Music as Cognitive Systems Conference (LMCS-2007), Cambridge, UK, May 11-13, 2007.

M. Sarkar, “Perceptual Synthesizer”, unpublished project presentation, MAS.641, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA, Dec. 2005.

[JonBoley]

A few other resources:

A Graphical Assessment Language (GAL) for Spatial Audio

Berg, Jan, and Francis Rumsey. "Identification of quality attributes of spatial audio by repertory grid technique." Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 54.5 (2006): 365-379.

[JonBoley]

Another resource:
Lindau, Alexander, et al. "A Spatial Audio Quality Inventory (SAQI)." Acta Acustica united with Acustica 100.5 (2014): 984-994.

[JonBoley]

Looks like while I got busy working on other stuff, Delta went ahead and made an audio wheel
http://share.madebydelta.com/wp-content/publications/akustik/tek_notat/TECH_Document_Perceptual_characteristics_of_audio_UK.pdf

I'll have to take some time and review it...

Also: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=17734