Davies, WJ 2004, The perception of susurration: envelopment in indoor and outdoor spaces , in: 18th Int. Congress on Acoustics, 4th - 9th April 2004, Kyoto, Japan.

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Abstract

This paper investigates a connection between perceptions of indoor and outdoor soundscapes. The word susurration is used in non-scientific writing to describe sounds such as wind in trees and rushing water. It is hypothesised that these sounds give rise to a sensation of envelopment in a similar manner to the indoor susurration of reverberated speech, even when reproduced monophonically. Fifty-three listeners were asked to rate perceived envelopment for susurration and non-susurration sounds. One group of subjects rated the envelopment of susurration sounds highly. Mean envelopment for these listeners is correlated with low-frequency auto-covariance.

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