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THE MERMAIDS TEARS: CREATING THE WORLDS FIRST LIVE INTERACTIVE OBJECT-BASED RADIO DRAMA DR. CHRIS BAUME SENIOR RESEARCH ENGINEER M U N I C H , 15 TH M A Y 2018 2 INTRODUCTION ADVANTAGES OF OBJECT-BASED AUDIO Immersive Personalised

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M U N I C H , 15 TH M A Y 2018

  • DR. CHRIS BAUME

SENIOR RESEARCH ENGINEER

THE MERMAID’S TEARS: CREATING THE WORLD’S FIRST LIVE INTERACTIVE OBJECT-BASED RADIO DRAMA

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ADVANTAGES OF OBJECT-BASED AUDIO

INTRODUCTION

Immersive Interactive Accessible Personalised

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Production

  • Broadcast infrastructure
  • Metadata generation

Distribution

  • Metadata interchange
  • Emission and coding

Rendering

  • Tools
  • Consistency

CHALLENGES OF OBJECT-BASED AUDIO

INTRODUCTION

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THE MERMAID’S TEARS

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FEATURES

THE MERMAID’S TEARS

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DEMO

THE MERMAID’S TEARS

Launch demo

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EVALUATION RESULTS

THE MERMAID’S TEARS

6% 88% No Yes

Should we do more stuff like this?

10% 10% 14% 20% 46% 1 2 3 4 5

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10% 32% 38% Illustrations Immersive sound Switching characters

Which feature did you enjoy the most?

2% 38% 59% More Twice Once

How many times did you listen?

18% 49% Incomplete Richer

Having a choice of story-lines felt…

n=115

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PRODUCING THE MERMAID’S TEARS

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WRITING

PRODUCING THE MERMAID’S TEARS

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PLANNING

PRODUCING THE MERMAID’S TEARS

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LIVE PERFORMANCE

PRODUCING THE MERMAID’S TEARS

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BEHIND THE SCENES

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Production

  • Broadcast infrastructure
  • Metadata generation

Distribution

  • Metadata interchange
  • Emission and coding

Rendering

  • Tools
  • Consistency

TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS

BEHIND THE SCENES

→ IP Studio, AES67 and NMOS → Audio control interface → Audio Definition Model (ADM) → MPEG-DASH with AAC → BBC Audio Toolkit → EBU ADM Renderer

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IP STUDIO, AES67 AND NMOS

BEHIND THE SCENES

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AUDIO CONTROL INTERFACE

BEHIND THE SCENES

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AUDIO CONTROL INTERFACE DEMO

BEHIND THE SCENES

Launch demo

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BBC AUDIO TOOLKIT (BBCAT)

BEHIND THE SCENES

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SUMMARY

  • OBA opens up new audience experiences
  • We demonstrated a live end-to-end object-based broadcast chain
  • Listeners responded well to our interactive radio drama
  • There are emerging tools and standards for OBA
  • We built custom tools for production and presentation
  • We published how we did this – you can do it too!
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THANKS FOR LISTENING!

chris.baume@bbc.co.uk http://mermaidstears.ch.bbc.co.uk/