While most electric vehicles today provide an internal driving sound, these sounds are the result of a static approach, in terms of being reproducible and only based on a limited number of vehicle-related input parameters. Notwithstanding the possibility of tuning these sound generators by driving parameters (e.g., speed and load), static sound design has the disadvantage of not being adaptable to distinct contexts, environments and personal preferences. In this paper, we present a new approach that combines machine learning and adaptive sound generators to match the detected situational driving style. The proposed solution contains two main components:(a) Morphable sound generators with hyperparameters based on the knowledge of sound design experts; (b) A deep learning model capable of predicting personal driving styles. The AI detected driving style is applied to control a variety of seamlessly morphable sound algorithms, thus providing the driver with a sonic experience dynamically adapted to her/his traf?c environment or driving style. The driver is furthermore enabled to intentionally determine the sonic behaviour of the vehicle without the use of any additional controls. A prototype of this system has been implemented and tested with several participants, providing resources for quantitative analysis of multi-modal feature selection and respective model ?tting. This was followed by interviews with participants regarding the qualitative (sound design) results of this ?rst use case.
Click to purchase paper as a non-member or you can login as an AES member to see more options.
No AES members have commented on this paper yet.
To be notified of new comments on this paper you can
subscribe to this RSS feed.
Forum users should login to see additional options.
If you are not yet an AES member and have something important to say about this paper then we urge you to join the AES today and make your voice heard. You can join online today by clicking here.
