Evaluations of output from room acoustic computer modeling and auralization due to different sound source directionalities

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1281-1293

  Wang, Lily M ^a   Vigeant, Michelle C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auralization; Computer modeling; Room acoustics; Source directivity; Subjective testing

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REVERBERATION; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; AURALIZATION; AURALIZATIONS; COMPUTER MODELING; COMPUTER MODELLING; DIRECTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; REVERBERATION TIME; ROOM ACOUSTIC MODELING; ROOM ACOUSTICS; SOUND POWER; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOUND SOURCES; SOURCE DIRECTIVITY; SOURCE TYPES; TWO SOURCES;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 52049085292     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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