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TEST CODEC BURST

How much damage does a brief stretch of audio have to take before you hear that it is damaged?

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Test methods

METHOD ANOMALY

What a participant does

A clean carrier runs continuously. Short roughened segments are inserted at several durations. You press once when the damaged segment is actually heard.

The headline number

Artifact mix needed for a damaged segment to be noticed, against its duration

Unit
% artifact mix
Measured against
the clean carrier, immediately before and after, in the same session

Analysis

Estimators, uncertainty, and result interpretation are documented under Results and analysis.

Practicalities

Session
10 min
Course context
Chapter 9