Advanced technical listening training program at Kyushu University

Abstract

This presentation introduces the Advanced Technical Listening Training (TLT) program at Kyushu University. TLT is a systematic training program designed to improve auditory sensitivity; it consists of discrimination and identification tasks for a wide variety of acoustic features (e.g., frequency, sound pressure level, and spectrum pattern). The TLT II class (i.e., the advanced TLT program) provides training in identification of reverberation time, quantization bit depth, mixing level balance, and spectral slope of harmonic tones. TLT facilitates improved understanding of acoustic theory and phenomena, and psychoacoustics.