A structural model for binaural sound synthesis

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 476-488

  Phillip Brown, C ^a   Duda, Richard O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 d sound; Binaural; Head related transfer functions; Localization; Spatial hearing; Virtual auditory space

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BINAURAL SOUND SYNTHESIS; HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VIRTUAL AUDITORY SPACE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032163505     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.709673     Document Type: Article

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