ONLINE EVENT
With more awareness for accessibility being achieved in recent years, wide-spread deficiencies for hearing-loss or disabilities require broadcasters to address quality control for speech intelligibility.
Today’s audio technology allows for various solutions. And especially advanced digital and machine learning driven signal processing offer a wide range of tools to analyse and enhance speech intelligibility.
This workshop aims to gather leading experts and stakeholder from all concerned disciplines – academic research, software development as well as technical and editorial broadcast practitioners, to learn and exchange about physiological principles, user requirements, approaches to measure, and technical tools to actively enhance speech intelligibility - and therefore improve auditory accessibility.
This workshop is a joint effort of 4 EBU groups – Audio Systems/Personalised Sound Experience, Media Access Technology and Quality Control plus the Accessibility Experts Group – which are concerned with the topic. The main goal of the workshop is ideally to create a joint pathway and vision how enhance speech intelligibility in PSB media production and delivery.
Key points of the agenda include:
- Speech intelligibility and hearing impairments - What we know from research
- Speech intelligibility in Audio Production: requirements and constraints
- Speech Intelligibility in broadcast workflows
- Speech intelligibility next level: object-based audio
Speakers:
- Hannah Baumgartner (FH IDMT),
- Trevor Cox (University of Salford),
- Thomas Lund (Genelec),
- Dave Marston (BBC R&D),
- Scott Kramer (Netflix) and others.
A variety of demos from research projects and solution providers will be available, too, for ears-/hands-on experience.
On day 2, interactive group work sessions and demos are to identify, discuss and envision how to better handle speech intelligibility for broadcast and on-demand workflows.