New Research Sheds Light on How We Hear Which Way a Speaker is Facing (IMAGE)

Sophia University

New Research Sheds Light on How We Hear Which Way a Speaker is Facing

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Researchers at Sophia University discover that both loudness and frequency-based acoustic cues help listeners identify speaker’s facing direction, a breakthrough for spatial audio in virtual and augmented realities.

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Dr. Shinya Tsuji, Sophia University, Japan

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