We are pleased to offer our customers the Intelligibility Meter, a major enhancement to the Nuendo product.” “In order to do justice to different hearing preferences and hearing losses associated with demographic change, it is important for producers and sound designers to be able to objectively approximate the actual hearing ability of end-users. Timo Wildenhain, Head of ProAudio at Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH continues… It is a results of several years of hearing research in Oldenburg.” “The tool Intelligibility Meter measures objective speech intelligibility in media production in real time, controlled by artificial intelligence. Jan Rennies-Hochmuth, Head of Personalized Hearing Systems at Fraunhofer IDMT explains…

The new feature analyses incoming audio signals via a speech intelligibility model with automatic speech recognition technology and calculates how much effort the listener must put in to understand the spoken words within the mix. To ensure that dialogue in media can always be mixed to make sure people can easily hear what is being spoken, Steinberg has equipped the latest version 11 of its production solution Nuendo with a new module based on algorithms developed by Fraunhofer IDMT. Older people, in particular, find it difficult or tiring to follow the spoken contributions in a film, radio or TV series. With the implementation of intelligibility technology in Steinberg's current production solution Nuendo, a traffic light now indicates how well the spoken words will be objectively received by listeners. These include algorithms for automatic measurement, evaluation and presentation of speech intelligibility facilitate the work of sound engineers in film, game and audio productions. Scientists at Fraunhofer IDMT are developing solutions to improve the intelligibility of speech in media. In its article, we investigate what intelligibility is and why it matters and explore how the new Fraunhofer meter used in Steinberg’s Nuendo 2 works. It turns out that Steinberg’s Intelligibility Meter has been developed bu the very clever people at Fraunhofer. This follows iZotope including an intelligibility meter in their metering suite - Insight 2. Steinberg has included an Intelligibility Meter in Nuendo 11.

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