• Corpus ID: 14257596

Authoring augmented soundscapes with user-contributed content

@inproceedings{Janer2011AuthoringAS,
  title={Authoring augmented soundscapes with user-contributed content},
  author={Jordi Janer and Gerard Roma and Stefan Kersten},
  year={2011}
}

• J. Janer, Gerard Roma, S. Kersten
• Published 2011
• Computer Science

Augmented reality audio is an area still not sufficiently explored. In this article we address the creation of soundscapes to augment the acoustic information in a physical location. In particular, we focus on authoring tools that make use of user-contributed content. To facilitate the authoring process, our tool integrates the access to Freesound.org, an online repository with more than 120,000 sounds under a Creative Commons license. The sound search combines the traditional text-query with content-based audio classification. The automatic classification allows searching according to a taxonomy of environmental sounds (e.g. drip, impact, wind, etc.). Finally, we implemented a complete augmented soundscapes system that , in an autonomous and continuous manner, spatializes virtual acoustic sources in a geographic location.