Sound Zones Without the Handcuffs: Teaching Neural Networks to Bend Acoustic Space
Opening — Why this matters now Personal sound zones (PSZs) have always promised something seductive: multiple, private acoustic realities coexisting in the same physical space. In practice, they’ve delivered something closer to a bureaucratic nightmare. Every new target sound scene demands the same microphone grid, the same painstaking measurements, the same fragile assumptions. Change the scene, and you start over. ...