Urban background sound recordings for virtual acoustics under various weather conditions at IHTApark

<p>This is an open database of calibrated background sound recordings with metadata on meteorological and acoustical parameters ready to be used in virtual reality applications, for soundsacpe studies.</p> <p>The soundscapes have been recorded at the IHTApark (green space next to the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics) in Aachen (Germany) in winter and spring of 2022.</p> <p>They have been segemented into 30-seconds auralizable snippets.</p> <p>For an<strong> <a href="https://paad-group.github.io/IHTApark-ambient-recordings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interactive exploration</a></strong> of the soundscapes, please visit the follwing website:</p> <p><a href="https://paad-group.github.io/IHTApark-ambient-recordings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a></p> <p><a href="https://paad-group.github.io/IHTApark-ambient-recordings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://paad-group.github.io/IHTApark-ambient-recordings/</a></p> <p>The dabase is available as binaural files, first-order ambisonics files, and as omni files.</p> <p>The metadata is included as a .xlsx file.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>