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Citation - Scopus: 51
Soundscape assessment: Towards a validated translation of perceptual attributes in different languages
(Korean Society of Noise and Vibration Engineering, 2020) Aletta, F.; Oberman, T.; Axelsson, Ö.; Xie, H.; Zhang, Y.; Lau, S.-K.; Kang, J.; 214925
The recently published ISO/TS 12913-2:2018 standard aims to provide researchers and practitioners around the world with a reliable questionnaire for soundscape characterization. The ISO Technical Specifications report protocols and attributes grounded in the soundscape literature, but only includes an English version. The applicability and reliability of these attributes in non-English speaking regions remains an open question, as research investigating translations of soundscape attributes is limited. To address this gap, an international collaboration was initiated with soundscape researchers from all over the world. Translation into 15 different languages, obtained through focus groups and panels of experts in soundscape studies, are proposed. The main challenges and outcomes of this preliminary exercise are discussed. The long-term objective is to validate the proposed translations using standardized listening experiments in different languages and geographical regions as a way to promote a widespread use of the soundscape attributes, both in academia and practice, across locations, populations and languages. © Proceedings of 2020 International Congress on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2020. All rights reserved.
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Translation of soundscape perceptual attributes from English to Turkish
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2023) Yorukoglu, P. N. Dokmeci; Bayrak, O. Turker; Coban, N. Akbulut; Osma, U. B. Ercakmak; Aletta, F.; Oberman, T.; Kang, J.; Ortak Dersler Bölümü
The International Standard Organization (ISO) published the standard series on soundscape for the identification, data collection and data analysis. However, since all these standards are in English language, the reliable standardized usage in other languages and its applicability is questionable. Thus, this two-staged study aims: i) to determine the Turkish equivalences of the 8 soundscape perceptual attributes that are published in ISO/TS 12913-2:2018 and ISO/TS 12913-3:2019, ii) to analyze if the determined Turkish attributes have concept equivalence to the original ones, and iii) to determine if the translated Turkish scale is reproducible. The first stage involved the translation of the attributes by focus group discussions and finalization by Turkish linguistic experts. As a result, the attributes 'eventful', 'vibrant', 'pleasant', 'calm', 'uneventful', 'monotonous', 'annoying', and 'chaotic' are translated to Turkish as 'hareketli', 'coskulu', 'keyifli', 'sakin', 'duragan', 'tekduze', 'rahatsiz edici', and 'karmasik', respectively. The second stage involves the analysis of reproducibility in terms of inter-rater reliability and conceptual validity. It is found that the Turkish scale is reproducible based on high inter-rater reliability in all attri-butes. Context validity at a conceptual level is analyzed both in terms of the difference between the aver-age scores given to the English attributes and their corresponding Turkish equivalences and the correlation between the English and Turkish scores given to each attribute. The highest difference between the average scores (around 10 points on a slider scale of 0 to 100) is found to be in the translation of 'vibrant' while the lowest correlated one (slightly lower than 0.5) is found in 'chaotic' attribute as in line with literature. Despite this result, when the scores are reduced to 2 dimensions as pleasantness and eventfulness, it is seen that there is a high correlation between the English and Turkish scales. It is considered that the results obtained from this research could act as a base in the future for the establishment of Turkish Standards on soundscape and standardization of the translated and validated Turkish soundscape perceptual attributes and the 'perceived affective quality' scale defined under ISO/TS 12913-2:2018 in English. (c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.