Mercurial > hg > webaudioevaluationtool
changeset 339:b52911d1df64 WAC2016
Paper: Now with images - minor edits
| author | Brecht De Man <b.deman@qmul.ac.uk> |
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| date | Thu, 15 Oct 2015 20:46:17 +0100 |
| parents | 60fffb9e291c |
| children | 90b9b077475a |
| files | docs/WAC2016/WAC2016.pdf docs/WAC2016/WAC2016.tex docs/WAC2016/img/boxplot.png docs/WAC2016/img/interface.png |
| diffstat | 4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/docs/WAC2016/WAC2016.tex Thu Oct 15 20:39:13 2015 +0100 +++ b/docs/WAC2016/WAC2016.tex Thu Oct 15 20:46:17 2015 +0100 @@ -142,10 +142,10 @@ % Why difficult? Challenges? What constitutes a good interface? % Technical, interfaces, user friendliness, reliability - Several applications for performing perceptual listening tests currently exist, as can be seen in Table \ref{tab:toolboxes}. A review of existing listening test frameworks was undertaken and presented in~\Cref{tab:toolboxes}. HULTI-GEN~\cite{hultigen} is a single toolbox that presents the user with a large number of different test interfaces and allows for customisation of each test interface. The Web Audio Evaluation Toolbox (WAET) stands out as it does not require proprietary software or a specific platform. It also provides a wide range of interface and test types in one user friendly environment. Furthermore, it does not require any progamming experience as any test based on the default test types can be configured in the browser as well. Note that the design of an effective listening test further poses many challenges unrelated to interface design, which are beyond the scope of this paper \cite{bech}. + Several applications for performing perceptual listening tests currently exist, as can be seen in Table \ref{tab:toolboxes}. A review of existing listening test frameworks was undertaken and presented in~\Cref{tab:toolboxes}. HULTI-GEN~\cite{hultigen} is a single example of a toolbox that presents the user with a large number of different test interfaces and allows for customisation of each test interface, without requiring knowledge of any programming language. The Web Audio Evaluation Toolbox (WAET) stands out as it does not require proprietary software or a specific platform. It also provides a wide range of interface and test types in one user friendly environment. Furthermore, it does not require any progamming experience as any test based on the default test types can be configured in the browser as well. Note that the design of an effective listening test further poses many challenges unrelated to interface design, which are beyond the scope of this paper \cite{bech}. % Why in the browser? - Web Audio API has important features for performing perceptual tests including sample level manipulation of audio streams \cite{schoeffler2015mushra} and the ability for synchronous and flexible playback. Being in the browser allows leveraging the flexible object oriented JavaScript language and native support for web documents, such as the extensible markup language (XML) which is used for configuration and test result files. Using the web also reduces deployment requirements to a basic web server with advanced functionality such as test collection and automatic processing using PHP. As recruiting participants can be very time-consuming, and as for some tests a large number of participants is needed, browser-based tests \cite{schoeffler2015mushra} can enable participants in multiple locations to perform the test. However, to our knowledge, no tool currently exists that allows the creation of a remotely accessible listening test. + The Web Audio API provides important features for performing perceptual tests including sample level manipulation of audio streams \cite{schoeffler2015mushra} and the ability for synchronous and flexible playback. Being in the browser allows leveraging the flexible object oriented JavaScript language and native support for web documents, such as the extensible markup language (XML) which is used for configuration and test result files. Using the web also reduces deployment requirements to a basic web server with advanced functionality such as test collection and automatic processing using PHP. As recruiting participants can be very time-consuming, and as for some tests a large number of participants is needed, browser-based tests \cite{schoeffler2015mushra} can enable participants in multiple locations to perform the test. However, to our knowledge, no tool currently exists that allows the creation of a remotely accessible listening test. Both BeaqleJS \cite{beaqlejs} and mushraJS\footnote{https://github.com/akaroice/mushraJS} also operate in the browser. However BeaqleJS does not make use of the Web Audio API and therefore lacks arbitrary manipulation of audio stream samples, and neither offer an adequately wide choice of test designs for them to be useful to many researchers. %requires programming knowledge?...