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Intelligent sound engineering for all

Signal processing challenges to rework music for those with a hearing loss Intelligent sound engineering opens up the possibility of personalizing audio, for example processing and mixing music so the audio quality is better for someone with a hearing loss. People with a hearing impairment can experience problems when listening to music with or without […]

Building bridges

Why engineers and writers could benefit from working together on stories, as we've been doing on the Inventive Podcast.

Inventive Podcast

How engineering is poorly served by its portrayal in the media, and how we've teamed up with fiction writers to tackle this in the Inventive Podcast.

Halloumi glass harmonica

How I made a halloumi glass harmonica for a TV demo and played Ode to Joy ... just.

Clear facemasks: early tests

Some experiments on clear facemasks we're doing at Salford University to improve communication for PPE.

Acoustic Advent 2020

The new windows from the 2020 Acoustic Advent run by @trevor_cox @salfordacoustic

Stonehenge: Whispering Gallery?

Searching (in vain) for whispering gallery effects in Stonehenge. Pretty FDTD simulations and measurements in our Acoustic Scale Model of Stonehenge.

Speech in Stonehenge

How loud was speech and music inside Stonehenge in 2,200 BC? And what might that say about how the site was used by our ancestors?

What’s in an (artificial) voice?

An introduction to a new experiment looking at how we respond to artificial voices from BBC R&D and University of Salford.

Podcast Headphone Spatialiser

The Salford Acoustics' SpatialPodcast plug-in is designed for podcasters wishing to add more dimensional sound to their recordings.