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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Soundscape(also: Auditory Soundscape, Audio Landscape)
An auditory environment where multiple spatialized sounds represent objects or landmarks in all directions around a listener, creating an acoustic representation of physical space. In accessibility applications, soundscapes use spatial audio technology to make virtual objects…
Spatialization(also: Spatialisation, Audio Spatialization, 3D Audio Spatialization)
The process of rendering a sound so that it appears to originate from a specific location in three-dimensional space around the listener. Spatialization typically combines head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to model how ears filter sound by direction, binaural or ambisonic…
Speech Output(also: Auditory Feedback, Spoken Feedback)
Speech output refers to the use of synthesised or pre-recorded human voice to convey information from a computer system or device to a user. In accessibility contexts, speech output is a primary means of making visual interfaces accessible to blind and visually impaired users,…

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