Comments on: Arkamys ‘listen with your own ears’ blog unveiled http://listenwithyourownears.com/2008/04/01/arkamys-%e2%80%98listen-with-your-own-ears%e2%80%99-blog-unveiled/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:41:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: David Schonstein http://listenwithyourownears.com/2008/04/01/arkamys-%e2%80%98listen-with-your-own-ears%e2%80%99-blog-unveiled/comment-page-1/#comment-22 David Schonstein Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:47:58 +0000 http://arkamis.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/arkamys-%e2%80%98listen-with-your-own-ears%e2%80%99-blog-unveiled/#comment-22 Hi Grace, Thank you so much for your interest in the project and your excellent questions. To answer your first question: The software in the first instance will work by selecting a 'best profile' to generate your personalised 3D audio. This profile will be selected from a database, and will be based on your responses to a 3D audio game that could run on your mobile phone or computer. The next phase will then be to generate your profile for personalised 3D audio based on parameters extracted from a photo, such as the size of your head. Both these methods will base themselves on established 3D audio techniques. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_audio for more information. To answer your second question: At the moment portable media devices are limited by the power of their DSP (the chip that drives the audio in the device). By the time Arkamys is ready to launch this technology this will all change and these devices will be equipped with everything they need to use our technology. Arkamys will then work with the manufacturers of these devices (for example iPod) in order to embed our technology in them. The most obvious place to begin with this technology is in mobile phones since they are all equipped with a camera that can be used to take a photo of your ears and head and then generate your own personalised 3D audio. To answer your third question: The 3D audio will be not be generated live or be streaming from a server. Algorithms are downloaded onto your portable audio player and then the 3D audio is generated on the device. For this reason there is no delay, and the 3D audio will be seamless and synchronised with all the video content you may have. I hope I have answered your questions. Feel free to ask some more. David Hi Grace,

Thank you so much for your interest in the project and your excellent questions.

To answer your first question:
The software in the first instance will work by selecting a ‘best profile’ to generate your personalised 3D audio. This profile will be selected from a database, and will be based on your responses to a 3D audio game that could run on your mobile phone or computer.
The next phase will then be to generate your profile for personalised 3D audio based on parameters extracted from a photo, such as the size of your head.
Both these methods will base themselves on established 3D audio techniques.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_audio for more information.

To answer your second question:
At the moment portable media devices are limited by the power of their DSP (the chip that drives the audio in the device). By the time Arkamys is ready to launch this technology this will all change and these devices will be equipped with everything they need to use our technology. Arkamys will then work with the manufacturers of these devices (for example iPod) in order to embed our technology in them. The most obvious place to begin with this technology is in mobile phones since they are all equipped with a camera that can be used to take a photo of your ears and head and then generate your own personalised 3D audio.

To answer your third question:
The 3D audio will be not be generated live or be streaming from a server. Algorithms are downloaded onto your portable audio player and then the 3D audio is generated on the device. For this reason there is no delay, and the 3D audio will be seamless and synchronised with all the video content you may have.

I hope I have answered your questions. Feel free to ask some more.

David

]]> By: Grace http://listenwithyourownears.com/2008/04/01/arkamys-%e2%80%98listen-with-your-own-ears%e2%80%99-blog-unveiled/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Grace Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:59:51 +0000 http://arkamis.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/arkamys-%e2%80%98listen-with-your-own-ears%e2%80%99-blog-unveiled/#comment-21 From the short amount I have read I understand that the goal of the 'Listen with your Own Ears' project, is to improve the quality of Plug sized headphones to a 3-D quality. This is achieved by: 'The service matches your ears to the closest model, and then sends back to your phone customized software that changes the music you listen to in such a way that it accurately recreates the artists intention.' I am interested in how the customised software as mention above works? Is the software compaitable with a large range of existing audio products such as i-Pods ect; or will the software only be available to certain products? Are the audio changes that the software creates live; that is are they immediate or is there a slight delay as portable CD players operated with the anti skip mechanism? Thanks I look forward to learning more. Grace From the short amount I have read I understand that the goal of the ‘Listen with your Own Ears’ project, is to improve the quality of Plug sized headphones to a 3-D quality. This is achieved by:

‘The service matches your ears to the closest model, and then sends back to your phone customized software that changes the music you listen to in such a way that it accurately recreates the artists intention.’

I am interested in how the customised software as mention above works?

Is the software compaitable with a large range of existing audio products such as i-Pods ect; or will the software only be available to certain products?

Are the audio changes that the software creates live; that is are they immediate or is there a slight delay as portable CD players operated with the anti skip mechanism?

Thanks I look forward to learning more.

Grace

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