Advanced Clean Audio Solution: Dialogue Enhancement

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 123, No. 5, pp. 23–27
Abstract: Dialogue intelligibility of TV audio content is an issue especially for people with hearing impairments. This paper presents a new Dialogue Enhancement technology as an advanced Clean Audio solution to address this problem. This technology enables the audience to individually adjust the volume of dialogue, music, or sound effects within a single broadcast audio stream for improved speech intelligibility or customized listening control. Further, this paper reports results of experiments that have been conducted to test the integration of the technology into the production workflow to find out about user reactions and to verify whether it is as helpful as intended for a hearing-impaired audience.
Publication Date: 2014-07-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18429
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18429
Author(s): Harald Fuchs
bio
Harald Fuchs received a diploma in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1997 and joined Fraunhofer IIS in the same year. From 1997 to 2002 he was a software developer for video codecs and multimedia streaming systems. Since 2002, Fuchs has concentrated on multimedia systems aspects and standardization. He actively contributed to several standardization organizations (including MPEG, DVB and HbbTV), and was author or co-author of several standards documents and IEEE papers. Since 2009 he has focused on audio technologies for broadcasting and broadband streaming applications. Fuchs has been senior business development manager, audio for TV broadcast, since 2011.
Dirk Oetting
bio
Dirk Oetting received a degree in physics (Dipl.-Phys.) from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, in 2008. In 2010, he joined the Project Group Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology of the Fraunhofer IDMT, Oldenburg. His research interests include signal processing, loudness perception, and fitting hearing supportive algorithms to individual ears.
Copyright: © 2014 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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