Re: Child's scream (Arnt =?iso-8859-1?Q?Maas=F8?= )


Subject: Re: Child's scream
From:    Arnt =?iso-8859-1?Q?Maas=F8?=  <arnt.maaso(at)MEDIA.UIO.NO>
Date:    Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:25:49 +0200

--============_-1226476940==_mr============ Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1226476940==_ma============" --============_-1226476940==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Dear list, >I got a question from a medical doctor asking for info about the >'noise' level of a child's scream. In addition to the interesting info lately on dB-levels, what I find interesting is the frequency distribution in a childs scream, that makes it sound even louder. Cf. the graph below (which I made from a baby scream often used in Norwegian TV post-production, using the software Amadeus II), which has a lot of energy where hearing is most sensitive. Arnt -- _____________________________________________________________ Arnt Maas=F8, Research Fellow Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo, Faculty of Arts P.O. Box 1093 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway Telephone: (+47) 22 85 04 19 Fax: (+47) 22 85 04 01 E-mail: arnt.maaso(at)media.uio.no Arnte's soundsite: http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/english.html _____________________________________________________________ --============_-1226476940==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type=3D"text/css"><!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { margin-top: 0 ; margin-bottom: 0 } --></style><title>Re: Child's scream</title></head><body> <blockquote type=3D"cite" cite>Dear list,<br> I got a question from a medical doctor asking for info about the</blockquote> <blockquote type=3D"cite" cite>'noise' level of a child's scream.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>In addition to the interesting info lately on dB-levels, what I find interesting is the frequency distribution in a childs scream, that&nbsp; makes it<i> sound</i> even louder. Cf. the graph below (which I made from a baby scream often used in Norwegian TV post-production, using the software Amadeus II), which has a lot of energy where hearing is most sensitive.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Arnt</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><img src=3D"cid:p05010402b6e57150b97c(at)[129.240.72.142].1.0"></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>-- <br> _____________________________________________________________<br> Arnt Maas=F8, Research Fellow<br> Department of Media and Communication<br> University of Oslo, Faculty of Arts<br> <br> P.O. Box 1093 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway<br> Telephone: (+47) 22 85 04 19 Fax: (+47) 22 85 04 01<br> E-mail: arnt.maaso(at)media.uio.no&nbsp; <br> Arnte's soundsite: http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/english.html<br> _____________________________________________________________</div> </body> </html> --============_-1226476940==_ma============-- --============_-1226476940==_mr============ Content-Id: <p05010402b6e57150b97c(at)[129.240.72.142].1.0> Content-Type: image/png; name="P1211866B" ; x-mac-type="504E4766" ; x-mac-creator="6F676C65" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="P1211866B" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAcUAAAEUCAIAAADVwbpZAAAABGdBTUEAANkDQtZPoQAA AAlwSFlzAAALEwAACxMBAJqcGAAAACJ0RVh0U29mdHdhcmUAUXVpY2tUaW1lIDUuMGIx MSAoTWFjT1MpAHdfmsgAAAAHdElNRQfRAxoKAx6xB0N3AAAMvElEQVR4nO3dbXajOBoG 0HhOrSRZZNUSOouMt5JxNxOGtgFjeCX0ce+POi6bYFlIDwKDfPn+/n47z+VyObcAvOp6 ubzbZDDnP2cXAKAR8hQghjwFiCFPAWLIU4AYv/K/5efnZ/43BUjt5MuVXC9VHddLwRLH 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