DoReMiFo maps acoustic properties to measured emotional response — so audio decisions have a reference point instead of an opinion. Built on a controlled study of 90 sounds rated by 490 listeners across 37 countries.
Sound is the most emotionally direct medium a brand has — and the least rigorously managed. That gap is expensive.
"Make it feel premium." "More trustworthy." Without a shared reference, every audio brief is a guessing game — and revisions are expensive.
A single notification tone can undermine months of visual brand work. Most teams don't find out until users complain — or churn.
You can A/B test a headline. You can user-test a colour. Sound? You ship it and hope. There has been no tool for evidence-based audio decisions — until now.
DoReMiFo translates acoustic properties into measured perceptual responses — so designers and clients can describe the same sound in the same terms.
Before you ship. Before the client hears it. DoReMiFo maps acoustic properties to the perceptual responses measured from listeners — so you can design with intent, not hope.
Replace vague adjectives with measurable targets. A brief a sound designer can act on — and a client can approve without endless rounds.
Compare candidates against a perceptual reference library. Know whether your shortlisted sounds land where you intend — before they go into production or on air.
Audio decisions are hard to defend in a boardroom. DoReMiFo gives you data — perceptual scores, emotional positioning, benchmarks — that make the case without requiring the room to trust your ear.
Whether you're a researcher, a sound designer, or just curious about how you hear — there's a DoReMiFo product for you.
Three sounds. One is different. Find it. Discover your hearing profile in 10 rounds — and see where you sit on the listener spectrum.
Contribute to active research on sound and emotion. Rate short sounds and help build the first evidence base for audio branding.
Professional tools for sound designers. Synthesise, evaluate and position sounds using the DoReMiFo perceptual framework — inside your DAW.
Learn synthesis through the lens of emotion. An interactive platform that teaches sound design by mapping what you hear to what listeners feel.
DoReMiFo starts as doctoral research at HAMU Prague. The first study is complete and pre-registered; what follows reports it as measured, including the parts that did not work.
Wave 1 result, stated plainly: perceived texture and activation are substantially predictable from acoustic descriptors; pleasantness is not. One perceptual dimension — fullness — depends on temporal structure that static descriptors do not capture, and is reported as outside the current model rather than modelled anyway. Two methodological failures are documented, one caused by a feature-extraction artifact that had produced apparent predictive signal until it was found. Predictions for the second study were registered before any data was collected.
Pre-registration and methods available on request — for researchers, the dataset is available under an academic-use agreement.
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