Accessible Spectrum Analyser

2016. Fiore Martin, Oussama Metatla, Nick Bryan-Kinns & Tony Stockman
Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2016).

Abstract

This paper presents the Accessible Spectrum Analyser (ASA) developed as part of the DePic project (Design Patterns for Inclusive collaboration) at Queen Mary University of London. The ASA uses sonification to provide an accessible representation of frequency spectra to visually impaired audio engineers. The software is free and open source and is distributed as a VST plug-in under OSX and Windows. The aim of reporting this work at the ICAD 2016 conference is to solicit feedback about the design of the present tool and its more generalized counterpart, as well as to invite ideas for other possible applications where it is thought that auditory spectral analysis may be useful, for example in situations where line of sight is not always possible.

Citation

Martin, F., Metatla, O., Bryan-Kinns, N., & Stockman, T. (2016). Accessible spectrum analyser. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2016).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{martin2016accessible,
  title={Accessible Spectrum Analyser},
  author={Martin, Fiore and Metatla, Oussama and Bryan-Kinns, Nick and Stockman, Tony},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2016)},
  year={2016}
}