Recently, listener tests of certain products have shown that the sense of pleasantness is significant in sound quality evaluation. For instance, pleasantness was an attribute frequently selected by subjects in the free word description of vacuum cleaner sounds. However, the relationship between the sense of pleasantness and psychoacoustic metrics is specific for each product. Present predicting models of pleasantness are not always suitable and have certain limitations, hence a new model of pleasantness was developed in our research. The development was based on the evaluation of specific products (vacuum cleaners and computer fans). The new model was then applied in two cases: first, for the evaluation of vacuum cleaners, which strongly correlated with the psychoacoustic metrics. Equally, the new model can be applied to a product for which the correlation coefficients between the standard psychoacoustic metrics and pleasantness were not significant (in this paper, the evaluation of computer fans). © 2010 Institute of Noise Control Engineering.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.