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Recent Advances in Soundscape and Environmental Noise
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Recent Advances in Soundscape and Environmental Noise

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Acoustics and Vibrations".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2025 | Viewed by 1804

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Masayuki Takada

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Department of Acoustic Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan
Interests: psychoacoustics; sound quality; environmental acoustics; soundscape; sound design
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The study of soundscapes is an emerging, interdisciplinary area of acoustics. It includes the investigation of environmental sounds and environmental background noise. New methodologies have been published as international standards (i.e., ISO 12913-1:2014, ISO/TS 12913-2:2018, ISO/TS 12913-3:2019), and soundscape analysis and environmental noise research have made rapid progress in recent years. Of course, research on community response and epidemiological studies on noise, which provide the rational basis for various guidelines and standards for noise, are also very important. These qualitative and quantitative approaches should be helpful to create a healthy acoustic environment.

Given this context, this Special Issue aims to collect original research papers on soundscape analysis and environmental noise. The Guest Editors hope that the high-quality papers in this Special Issue will contribute to the development of the field. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Soundscape;
  • Soundscape analysis;
  • Environmental noise;
  • Ambient noise;
  • Community noise;
  • Environmental acoustics.

Dr. Masayuki Takada
Guest Editor

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Effect of the Exterior Traffic Noises on the Sound Environment Evaluation in Office Spaces with Different Interior Noise Conditions
by Boya Yu, Yuying Chai and Chao Wang
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(7), 3017; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14073017 - 03 Apr 2024
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The present study focuses on the impact of exterior traffic noises on sound environment evaluation in office spaces, considering their interaction with interior noises. There were three interior noise conditions: silence, air-conditioner noise, and irrelevant speech noise. Six exterior traffic noises (road, maglev, [...] Read more.
The present study focuses on the impact of exterior traffic noises on sound environment evaluation in office spaces, considering their interaction with interior noises. There were three interior noise conditions: silence, air-conditioner noise, and irrelevant speech noise. Six exterior traffic noises (road, maglev, tram, metro, conventional inter-city train, and high-speed train) were merged with interior noise clips to create the combined noise stimuli. Forty subjects participated in the experiment to assess the acoustic environment in office spaces exposed to multiple noises. The results showed that both interior and exterior noise significantly affected acoustic comfort and noise disturbance. As for the exterior traffic noise, both the traffic noise source and the noise level were found to be influential on both attributes. More temporally fluctuating traffic noises, such as high-speed train noise, were found to have a greater negative effect on subjective evaluations. Meanwhile, the interior noise source was also found to influence evaluations of the sound environment. Compared to the single traffic noise condition, irrelevant speech noise significantly increased the negative impact of traffic noises, while the air-conditioner noise had a neutral effect. In addition, participants in offices with speech noise were less sensitive to the traffic noise level. Full article
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Directional Suppression of Monotone Noises with A Parametric Array Loudspeaker
by Han Wang, Jingxiao Zhang, Lin Gan and Yu Liu
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(12), 6868; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13126868 - 06 Jun 2023
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Monotone noises at high decibels have been identified as a main cause of degradation in people’s mental health. This paper proposes a directional monotone noise reduction method to suppress spatially localized single-frequency noises. The system is designed based on a feedforward active noise [...] Read more.
Monotone noises at high decibels have been identified as a main cause of degradation in people’s mental health. This paper proposes a directional monotone noise reduction method to suppress spatially localized single-frequency noises. The system is designed based on a feedforward active noise control (ANC) structure by implementing filtered-x least mean square (FxLMS) algorithms. Compared with traditional ANC methods, our system employs a parametric array loudspeaker (PAL) as the active noise-canceling source with high audio directivity for directional noise suppression. The system monitors the ambient monotone noise and implements the ANC algorithm in real-time through a software-based platform operating on a generic personal computer (PC). Experimental measurements demonstrate an 8dB reduction of different monotone noises at a 260cm distance from the active source. Compared with traditional ANC methods with a voice coil loudspeaker (VCL) as the noise-canceling source, our PAL-based system achieves similar noise suppression performance with a 5.8 times improvement in the source-to-target distance and 64% reduction in the −3dB audio main lobe beam width. The results prove the advantage of introducing PALs as active-noise-canceling sources for monotone noise suppression with a cost-effective enhancement in operating distances and noise control directivities. Full article
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