Determination of perceptual auditory attributes for the auralization of urban soundscapes

Noise Control Engineering Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 508-523

  Smyrnova, Yuliya ^a   Kang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO AND VIDEO; AURALIZATIONS; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; PERCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTES; SOUND ENVIRONMENT; SOUND SOURCE; SOUNDSCAPES; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN SPACES;

EXPERIMENTS; URBAN PLANNING;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 78650061189     PISSN: 07362501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3397/1.3484177     Document Type: Article

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