Personal Auditory Tele-existence System Using a TeleHead

Abstract

A TeleHead is a steerable dummy head that tracks a listener's head movement quickly and quietly. We made a personal auditory tele-existence system connecting Toyama Prefectural University and Research Institute of Electrical Communication Tohoku University by using a TeleHead over the Internet. The remote TeleHead can provide dynamic binaural signals associated with the head-movement data input, and the local listener can hear the sounds represented by them. The listener perceives the three-dimensional sound image as if he were at the remote place even when the system has a total latency of 223 ms.