AES Technical Committee:

Hearing and hearing loss prevention

Mission Statement

1. Raising AES member awareness of the normal and abnormal functions of the hearing process.

2. Raising AES member awareness of the risk and consequences of hearing loss resulting from excessive sound exposure.

3. Coordinating and providing technical guidance for the AES supported hearing testing and consultation programs at US and European Conventions.

4. Facilitating the maintenance and refinement of a database of audiometric test results and exposure information on AES members.

5. Forging a cooperative union between AES members, audio equipment manufacturers and the hearing the hearing conservation communities for purposes of developing strategies, technologies, and tools to reduce and prevent hearing loss.

Chair

Michael Santucci

Vice Chair

Dorte Hammershoi

Current Areas Of Work

  1. Presented at virtual AES conference along with the Loudspeakers and Headphone TC committee and World Heath Organization on safety and concert sound levels
  2. Organizing a 4th International AES Conference on Hearing and Hearing Loss Prevention. Anticipated Date: May 2024
  3. Organized presentation of World Health Organizations Listen Safe Initiative at Vienna 2020
  4. Member Michael Santucci AuD lectured the inaugural conference for Mastering Engineers on safe listening and hearing wellness strategies.

If you are interested in participating in the committee’s work please send an e-mail to the chair Robert Schulein. Please indicate in your e-mail that you are interested in the AESTC-HHLP. We welcome those interested in joining the committee to attend a future committee meeting. AES and non AES members are always welcome. Please Note: You do not have to be an AES member to join this committee, however you must be an AES member to serve as Chair or Vice-Chair of the committee. The committee communicates by means of an e-mail reflector site. This committee meets approximately every 6 months at alternate European and US conventions.

2015-4-16     Hearing loops – the preferred assistive listening technology
Description: Journal article from April 2015 on the benefits of hearing loops

  • 139th AES Convention: Workshop on Immersive Audio Coding
  • 139th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG-H 3D Audio
  • 138th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG-H 3D Audio
  • 133rd AES Convention: Workshop on Error-Tolerant Audio Coding
  • 131st AES Convention: Workshop on Low-delay Audio Coding for High-Quality Communications
  • 131st AES Convention: Workshop on Sound Quality Evaluation
  • 131st AES Convention: Tutorial ‘mp3 can sound good’
  • 129th AES Convention: Workshop on Wireless Audio Streaming
  • 128th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG Unified Speech and Audio Coding (USAC)
  • 127th AES Convention: Workshop on Scalable Audio Coding
  • 127th AES Convention: Workshop “What Will Perceptual Audio Coding Stand for 20 Years from Now?”
  • 126th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC)
  • 125th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC)
  • 123rd AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC)
  • 121st AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG Surround
  • 121st AES Convention: Workshop on Lossless Audio Coding
  • 120th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG Surround Parametric Multi-Channel Audio Coding
  • 119th AES Convention: Workshop on Next Generation Audio Communications
  • 117th AES Convention: Workshop on Spatial Coding of Surround Sound
  • 117th AES Convention: Workshop on Lossless Audio Coding
  • 115th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG-4 AudioBIFS
  • 114th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG-4 Audio Extensions, Workshop on “Coding of Spatial Audio”
  • 113th AES Convention: Workshop on recent MPEG-4 Audio Extensions
  • 113th AES Convention: Workshop on “Coding of Spatial Audio”
  • 113th AES Convention: 2nd Release of CD-ROM
  • 112th AES Convention: Workshop on CD-ROM, Workshop on Tandem Coding (together with AES TC on Perception)
  • 111th AES Convention: Release of CD-ROM “Perceptual Audio Coders – What To Listen For”
  • 110th AES Convention, Introduction & Introductory Paper on CD-ROM “Perceptual Audio Coders – What To Listen For”
  • 109th AES Convention, Workshop on CD-ROM Project
  • 108th AES Convention: CD-ROM Project on Coding Distortions. Listener training and education on coding distortions
  • 108th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG-4 Audio, Version 2
  • 107th AES Convention: Workshop on Internet Audio
  • 17th AES International Conference on High Quality Audio Coding
  • 106th AES Convention: Workshop on MPEG-4 Audio
  • 105th AES Convention: Workshop on Perceptual Audio Coding

Committee Members

Gordon Reid
Bozena Kostek
J M Woodgate
Preben Kvist
Neil Cherian
David Robb
Jean-Marc Jot
Jonny Jensen
Jan Voetmann
Ian Kuhn
Scott Snyder
Lawrence Revit
Benjamin Kanters
John Dawson
Gonzalo J. Rodriguez
Retnaguru Sandrakasan
Peter Mapp
Michael Santucci
J. Keith McElveen
Ainslie Harris
Laura Sinnott
Dorte Hammershoi
Gary Gottlieb
Jaime Serquera

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