TY - CHAP A1 - Serditova, Dana A1 - Tang, Kevin A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Automatic Speech Recognition Biases in Newcastle English: an Error Analysis T2 - Interspeech 2025, 17 - 21 August in Rotterdam KW - Automatische Spracherkennung KW - Soziolinguistik KW - Mundart KW - Bias Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1973 SP - 3204 EP - 3208 PB - ISCA ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rosenthal, Fabian A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Blättermann, Patrick T1 - flexcv: Easy and flexible nested cross validation for tabular data in python N2 - Python package customizing nested cross validation for tabular data. KW - Software KW - Python (Programmiersprache) Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10160846 PB - Zenodo CY - Genf ET - Version v24.0-beta ER - TY - CHAP A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Wolf, Anna-Christina A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Schiavio, Andrea ED - Daffern, Helena ED - Glasser, Solange ED - Osborne, Margaret ED - Martinez, Isabel C. ED - Marchiano, Maria ED - Blas Pérez, Joaquin ED - Kempf, Adrian ED - Norton, Naomi ED - Gibbs, Hannah J. ED - Owen, Caroline ED - Kirts, Connor G. ED - O’Neill, Katherine ED - Jackson, Rebecca T1 - Preferences patterns in music requests on a radio show for children [Abstract] T2 - ESCOM12 (York, La Plata & Melbourne) – The 12th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music: Book of Abstracts N2 - Background Previous research has observed vast changes in musical preference during childhood and adolescence due to developmental processes such as the experience of aesthetic responses to music (Nieminen et al., 2012) and the formation and expression of social identity through distinct musical preferences (Hargreaves et al., 2016). Most of this research, however, is either based on the evaluation of musical pieces that have been previously selected by adult experimenters, or self-reports on preferences for different musical styles. Aim(s) This study presents another methodological approach by collecting and analysing music that was freely requested on a children’s radio show. The aim was to test to what extent findings from self-reports and ratings of pre-selected music apply to this kind of data. Methods A sample of 1412 freely and publicly expressed music requests of children between 4 and 11 years was taken from a German radio program and analysed with regard to age- and sex-specific differences. The music was categorized into genres as listed on Spotify and examined by methods of Music Information Retrieval provided by the Spotify Developer API. Additionally, the music was genre-independently classified as children’s music. Results Results showed that, at younger ages, the requests were generally more evenly distributed across different genres. Regarding single genres, logistic regression models revealed small positive relationships between age and the likelihood of requesting the genres Pop and Electro and small negative relationships between age and the likelihood of requesting Acapella, German songwriter, Indie, theme songs, and children's music. Furthermore, contingency table analyses showed that boys requested significantly more Rock and Hip Hop, whereas girls had a higher tendency to ask for Pop. Finally, age was negatively correlated with the Spotify features valence and liveness of the requested music, which was related to the higher preference for children’s music at younger ages. Discussion and Conclusion The results suggest that previous findings regarding musically expressed gender roles and increasing formation of distinct genre preferences during infancy also apply to single song requests made on a radio show. References Hargreaves, D. J., North, A. C., & Tarrant, M. (2016). How and why do musical preferences change in childhood adolescence. In G. McPherson (Ed.), The child as musician: A handbook of musical development (Second edition). Oxford University Press. Nieminen, S., Istók, E., Brattico, E., & Tervaniemi, M. (2012). The development of the aesthetic experience of music: Preference, emotions, and beauty. Musicae Scientiae, 16(3), 372–391. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864912450454 KW - Musikwahrnehmung KW - Hörfunk KW - Kindheitsforschung Y1 - 2024 SP - 257 EP - 258 PB - Universität Graz CY - Graz ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Klein, Paula A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Birwe, Dagmar A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Can the Perceived Spatial Impression of Classical Recordings Be Predicted by Audio Descriptors? [Vortrag] T2 - Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2024 N2 - The perceived spatial impression is an important factor in the aesthetic appreciation of classical music recordings. Crucial aspects of spatial perception can be described by the attributes ensemble width, depth, envelopment, and reverberation duration. In a listening experiment, a sample of 30 experts rated 24 orchestra recordings by these attributes. To compare these ratings to signalrelated measures of spatial impression, an audio descriptor for the interaural cross-correlation coefficient in music recordings was chosen as a measure of perceived ensemble width. A second algorithm estimated the reverberation time from decay segments in the recorded music. Linear mixed-effects models were then used to test whether these two descriptors, combined with other audio features related to timbre, are suitable for predicting participants’ ratings of the perceptual attributes. Overall, results confirmed that the signal-related measures used can indeed predict perceptual attributes, with 41% of rating variance explained in the case of reverberation duration. In contrast, these objective measures turned out to be less accurate predictors of the perceived ensemble width, with a variance explanation of 21%. This study can thus be regarded as a starting point for further studies aiming to predict the perceived spatial impression in music recordings. KW - Audio Desciptors KW - räumliche Wahrnehmung KW - Raumakustik KW - Räumliches Hören KW - Klassische Musik KW - Musikaufnahme Y1 - 2024 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2024/files/upload/paper/213.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-22-5 SP - 1034 EP - 1037 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - GEN A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Schwörer, Paul A1 - Prinz, Lukas A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - OPRA: Akustische Analyse musikalischer Aufführungsräume im Browser T2 - Akustik Journal N2 - Der Aufführungsraum leistet einen substantiellen Beitrag zum Erleben von Musikdarbietungen. Zur Beschreibung der Akustik von Aufführungsräumen haben sich dabei zahlreiche Messgrößen etabliert, welche bestimmte Wahrnehmungsqualitäten, wie z. B. die Halligkeit, abbilden sollen. Dem stellt jüngere Forschung rein perzeptive Messinventare gegenüber, die den Wahrnehmungseindruck als solchen, losgelöst vom physikalischen Ursprung, beschreiben. Dieser Artikel beschreibt einen Versuch, diese beiden Forschungsrichtungen zusammenzuführen, indem Bewertungen von Aufführungsräumen nach dem perzeptiven Room Acoustical Quality Index (RAQI) durch physikalische Messgrößen modelliert wurden, welche aus einfachen Impulsantwortmessungen ermittelt werden. Dazu wurde eine Auswahl raumakustischer Messgrößen auf fünf Dimensionen reduziert und diese als Prädiktoren für die einzelnen Wahrnehmungsgrößen des RAQI getestet. Die Berechnung dieser Prädiktionsmodelle wird vorgestellt und deren Präzision diskutiert. Anschließend wird die OPRA-Webanwendung vorgestellt, die sowohl die Berechnung der raumakustischen Messgrößen als auch die Prädiktion von RAQI-Wahrnehmungsgrößen für die drei Quellsignale Sprache, Orchester und Solotrompete im Browser ermöglicht. Auch wenn die Präzision der Prädiktionsmodelle noch nicht für alle RAQI-Faktoren zuverlässige Ergebnisse liefert, erlaubt OPRA eine umfangreiche akustische Analyse und eine erste Einschätzung der perzeptiven Wirkung von Aufführungsräumen. N2 - Performance spaces have a substantial influence on the experience of musical performances, and numerous physical measures have been proposed to describe different aspects of the perceptual impact singular of a performance space. Recent research complements these physical measures with purely perceptual inventories that describe the auditory impression as such, and somewhat detached from its physical origin. This article describes an attempt to bring these two research directions together by modelling evaluations of performance spaces according to the subject-centered Room Acoustical Quality Index (RAQI) based on physical measures obtained from simple impulse response measurements. A selection of room acoustical parameters was reduced to five dimensions which were tested then as predictors for the perceptual qualities of the RAQI. The calculation of these prediction models is presented and the models’ prediction performance discussed. Then, the OPRA-online-tool is presented that enables both the calculation of the physical measures and the prediction of RAQI factors for the three source signals speech, orchestra and solo trumpet within the web browser. Even though the precision of the prediction models does not yet provide reliable estimates of all RAQI factors, OPRA allows a first assessment of the perceptual effect of performance spaces on speech and music. T2 - OPRA: acoustical analysis of musical performance spaces in a web browser KW - Raumakustik KW - Webandwendung KW - akustische Wahrnehmung Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.dega-akustik.de/fileadmin/dega-akustik.de/publikationen/akustik-journal/23-03/akustik_journal_2023_03_online_artikel4.pdf SN - 2569-1600 IS - 3 SP - 41 EP - 52 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Versümer, Siegbert A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Rosenthal, Fabian T1 - Extensive crowdsourced dataset of in-situ evaluated binaural soundscapes of private dwellings containing subjective sound-related and situational ratings along with person factors to study time-varying influences on sound perception - research data N2 - The soundscape approach highlights the role of situational factors in sound evaluations; however, only a few studies have applied a multi‐domain approach including sound‐related, person‐related, and time‐varying situational variables. Therefore, we conducted a study based on the Experience Sampling Method to measure the relative contribution of a broad range of potentially relevant acoustic and non‐auditory variables in predicting indoor soundscape evaluations. Here we present the comprehensive dataset for which 105 participants reported temporally (rather) stable trait variables such as noise sensitivity, trait affect, and quality of life. They rated 6.594 situations regarding the soundscape standard dimensions, perceived loudness, and the saliency of its sound components and evaluated situational variables such as state affect, perceived control, activity, and location. To complement these subject‐centered data, we additionally crowdsourced object‐centered data by having participants make binaural measurements of each indoor soundscape at their homes using a low‐(self‐)noise recorder. These recordings were used to compute (psycho‐)acoustical indices such as the energetically averaged loudness level, the A‐weighted energetically averaged equivalent continuous sound pressure level, and the A‐weighted five‐percent exceedance level. This complex hierarchical data can be used to investigate time‐varying non‐auditory influences on sound perception and to develop soundscape indicators based on the binaural recordings to predict soundscape evaluations. KW - Dataset KW - soundscape KW - person factors KW - indoor soundscape KW - acoustic environment KW - non-auditory factors KW - situational factors KW - binaural recording KW - Experience Sampling Method KW - acoustic descriptors Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7193937 N1 - This study was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. “FHprofUnt” funding code: 13FH729IX6. Versions: Version V.01.1 10.5281/zenodo.7858848 Apr 25, 2023 Version V.01.0 10.5281/zenodo.7193938 Mar 7, 2023 CY - Zenodo ET - V.01.1 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Himmelein, H. A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - ”Ich sehe, was Du hörst!” - Verwendung der Pupillometrie zur Messung des Einflusses kognitiver Belastung auf die Geräuschbewertung T2 - Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA), Stuttgart Y1 - 2022 CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Egermann, Hauke A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Steffens, Jochen ED - Grünewald-Schukalla, Lorenz ED - Jóri, Anita ED - Schwetter, Holger T1 - Evidenzbasierte Praxis im Music Branding - Musikalische Markenkommunikation wird erwachsen T2 - Musik & Marken Y1 - 2022 UR - Egermann_Evidenzbasi.pdf SP - 73 EP - 91 PB - Springer Fachmedien CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krause, Amanda A1 - Baker J., David A1 - Groarke, Jenny A1 - Pereira, Ana I. A1 - Liew, Kongmeng A1 - Anglada-Tort, Manuel A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - A global investigation of music listening practices: The influence of country latitude and seasons on music preferences T2 - ICMPC-ESCOM 2021: 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition/11th Triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 28-31 July 2021, Sheffield Y1 - 2021 UR - https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/68858/ PB - ESCOMsociety CY - Sheffield ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Loepthien, Tim A1 - Hantschel, Florian A1 - Ruth, Nicolas A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Shumaker, Randall T1 - Flowerleben beim Musikhören: Die Wichtigkeit situativer und personenbezogener Variablen und Zusammenhänge mit der aktuellen Stimmung T2 - Abstract-Band zur 38. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie Y1 - 2022 PB - Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie CY - Würzburg ER -