We have retrofitted a vehicle with location-aware advisories/announcements, delivered via wireless headphones for passengers and "nearphones" or bone-conduction headphones for the driver. Our prototype differs from other projects exploring spatialization of the aural information: besides the commonly used landmarks to trigger audio streams delivery, our prototype uses geo-located virtual sources to synthesize spatial soundscapes. Intended as a "proof of concept" and testbed for future research, our development features multilingual tourist information, navigation instructions, and traffic advisories rendered simultaneously.

Authors: Cohen, Michael; Villegas, Julian
Affiliation: University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan
AES Conference: 40th International Conference: Spatial Audio: Sense the Sound of Space (October 2010)
Paper Number: 1-2
Publication Date: October 8, 2010
Subject: Applications of Spatial Audio

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