Psychoacoustic Modelling of Sound Attributes

2006-01-0098

04/03/2006

Event
SAE 2006 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
This study inquired into perceived attributes of car interior noise and correlating psychoacoustic parameters. Auditory assessments of a total of 29 vehicles were performed during cruise and acceleration in two independent road tests. Four perceptual dimensions were found to determine the sound evaluations: comfort/loudness, sportiness, harshness, and timbre. A regression model was used to predict comfort/loudness from sound level, roughness, sharpness and speech intelligibility (SVI). Instrumental assessments of engine roughness demonstrated to predict harshness to a large extent. Sportiness was substantially correlated with the increase of engine sound level due to load change. The latter finding was further examined in a third experiment, using sound synthesis in a test vehicle.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2006-01-0098
Pages
12
Citation
Zeitler, A., and Zeller, P., "Psychoacoustic Modelling of Sound Attributes," SAE Technical Paper 2006-01-0098, 2006, https://doi.org/10.4271/2006-01-0098.
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Published
Apr 3, 2006
Product Code
2006-01-0098
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English