Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
6 results found in spatial audio.
- Audio Beacon (Auditory Beacon, Sound Beacon)
- A spatial audio cue, typically a repeating tone or beep, attached to a specific location or object to help users with visual impairments navigate toward or identify points of interest in physical or v…
- Clock-Based Directional Audio (Clock-Face Audio Cueing, Clock Position Audio)
- A spatial orientation system that communicates direction to users by referencing positions on a clock face (e.g., "3 o'clock" for right, "12 o'clock" for directly ahead), often combined with distance …
- Interaural Level Difference (ILD, Interaural Intensity Difference, IID)
- The difference in sound pressure level (loudness) between the two ears, used by the auditory system to localize sound sources. Sounds coming from the right are louder in the right ear due to the head …
- Interaural Time Difference (ITD, Interaural Phase Difference)
- The difference in arrival time of a sound between the two ears, used by the auditory system to localize sound sources in the horizontal plane. Sound from the left reaches the left ear before the right…
- Microsoft Soundscape (Soundscape)
- Microsoft Soundscape was an accessible navigation app developed by Microsoft Research that used spatialized 3D audio to help blind and low-vision users build awareness of their surroundings. Rather th…
- Spatialized Audio (3D Audio, Spatial Sound, Immersive Audio)
- Spatialized audio is a technology that creates the perception of sound coming from specific locations in three-dimensional space around the listener, using techniques such as head-related transfer fun…