Object-Based Audio for Live TV Production

Object-Based Audio (OBA) is the next breakthrough in live television production. It will provide an enhanced listening experience and personalization as revolutionary as sound was to motion pictures in the 1930's. The age of personalization has arrived and TV consumers can view any program, at any time and on virtually any media device. — The next generation of audio encoders will have the capabilities to create OBA in live television production and post-production. Features of OBA include audio personalization for language selection, dialogue enhancements and options for the hearing impaired. OBA will provide the viewer with the ability to customize their viewing for any type of program in any viewing setting. — The future audio codec technologies will enable the creative chain to produce customized audio for the viewer. This process begins at the original mix location and continues through the broadcast chain to any consumer device. These encoders will have the capability to emit surround sound and immersive sound with objects either separately or in combination with each other. Scene based audio will also be a feature of the next generation codecs enabling the mixer to represent the sound image instead of channels.

Published

2015-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Object-Based Audio(OBA), immersive sound, next generation audio encoder, objects, live production TV, personalization, enhanced listening, audio codecs, metadata

DOI

10.5594/M001650

ISBN

978-1-61482-956-0