A review on conventional psychoacoustic evaluation tools, methods and algorithms

Abstract

Nowadays, psychoacoustic analysis of a sound is often applied for quick quantification of its auditory perception. Such hearing-related quantities also referred to as psychoacoustic parameters are meant to be a good representation of the human auditory perception. Predictive models are available to estimate the perception of these quantities. However, calculated psychoacoustic parameters show a lack of accuracy when compared with subjective listening test results for complex and authentic sounds. This paper shows some deficiencies and strengths of conventional algorithms and offers a few ideas for improvement.