The Sound Quality of Car Horns: Designing New Representative Sounds

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 356-372

  Lemaitre, Guillaume ^a   Susini, Patrick ^a   Winsberg, Suzanne ^a   McAdams, Stephen ^a,c   Letinturier, Boris ^b  

^a Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^b SCE Klaxon   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTORS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; ROAD USERS; SOUND QUALITY; SYNTHESIZED SOUNDS;

CONTRACTS;

AUDITION;

EID: 66149175464     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918158     Document Type: Article

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