Paper: Reproducing Personal Sound Zones Using a Hybrid Synthesis of Dynamic and Parametric Loudspeakers

A hybrid loudspeaker system consisting of dynamic point sources and parametric loudspeaker models shows great results above, generally inevitable, soundfield aliasing frequencies.
This work was presented at APSIPA ASC 2016 in Jeju, Korea.

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Paper: Improving Speech Privacy in Personal Sound Zones

Presented at ICASSP 2016, we explore ways to improve speech privacy in multizone soundfield reproductions using intelligibility metrics, all while maintaining high speech quality.

Anechoic Results - Improving Speech Privacy in Personal Sound Zones
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Paper: Multizone Reproduction of Speech Soundfields – A Perceptually Weighted Approach

Recent work on perceptual soundfield reproduction for multizone soundfield cases was presented in Hong Kong at the Asia-Pacific Signal & Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC).

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Paper: An Efficient Approach to Dynamically Weighted Multizone Wideband Reproduction of Speech Soundfields

Presented at the 2015 IEEE China Summit & International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP) this work looks at efficiently determining multizone soundfield zone weights using bi-linear interpolation of sparsely simulated soundfields.

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