Analysis and Synthesis of Environmental Sounds
V. Guggiana, A. Darvishi, Eugen Munteanu, Helmut Schauer, Masoud Motavalli, Matthias Rauterberg · TU/e Research Portal · 1995
This technical report describes steps toward synthesis of environmental sounds like impact, bouncing, breaking, scraping and other impact sounds. The first section shows by means of knowledge engineering the investigation of possible methodologies and techniques for developing and describing environmental sounds in the industry. The second section describes various laboratory experiments which have been carried out in a anechoic room, impacting beams and plates of different materials. This is followed by physical modelling of the interacting objects which are involved in the sound generation. The synthetically generated and recorded sounds were used for comparison and for deriving data for further analysis. Hence physical modelling of sounds could be examined through data analysis and adjusted if necessary. Some developed algorithms for analysing impact sounds as well as some developed algorithms for sound synthesis are introduced later. Psycho acoustical comparison tests will soon be ...