Mingyue Kuang, Qihang Chen, Yulu Dai, A-Man Zhang, Shuai Li
{"title":"Acoustic emission mechanisms of bubble detachment and pinch-off.","authors":"Mingyue Kuang, Qihang Chen, Yulu Dai, A-Man Zhang, Shuai Li","doi":"10.1121/10.0046813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046813","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The evolution of bubbles released from a submerged nozzle involves coupled hydrodynamic and acoustic effects throughout growth, detachment, and ascent. This study investigates the acoustic emission mechanisms of millimeter-scale bubbles using high-speed imaging and hydrophone measurements over a range of gas flow rates. A spherical-cap-cone correction is introduced into the classical force-balance model to characterize the non-spherical morphology of bubbles detaching from large orifices at low flow rates, improving detachment-diameter prediction. With increasing gas flow rate, the classical Minnaert frequency increasingly overestimates the dominant detachment acoustic frequency. A coupled-bubble oscillator model accounting for interactions between newly detached and rising bubbles reproduces this downward frequency shift. Under stable gas supply and nearly axisymmetric detachment, three satellite-bubble pinch-off modes are observed during bubble ascent. Statistical analysis reveals that the dominant pinch-off mode is governed by the competition between inertial-buoyancy effects and surface tension. These events generate distinct acoustic pulses associated with satellite-bubble volume oscillations and re-excitation of the parent-bubble breathing mode, driven by Laplace-pressure perturbations induced by abrupt changes in interfacial curvature. This study clarifies the unsteady dynamics and acoustic emission mechanisms of nozzle-generated bubbles, supporting acoustic monitoring of gas-liquid two-phase flows.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"2810-2821"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149111309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
XiaoXin Wang, Qing Zhang, LuHui Yang, Hong Wang, DianQiang Wang
{"title":"Research on active noise control for villa elevators based on transmission path analysis and complex spectrum learning.","authors":"XiaoXin Wang, Qing Zhang, LuHui Yang, Hong Wang, DianQiang Wang","doi":"10.1121/10.0046797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046797","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Villa elevator noise is predominantly concentrated in the 20-500 Hz frequency range, with a reverberation time of 0.2 s, which is far shorter than the 0.4 s of conventional elevators. This makes it challenging for adaptive filters to guarantee effective noise reduction performance. A novel deep learning-based active noise cancellation method is proposed based on Dominant Transmission Path and Complex-spectrum Network (DTPC-Net). First, a transmission path model was established, and the primary noise source and its dominant propagation direction were identified based on coherence analysis and energy distribution. Subsequently, a one-dimensional modeling strategy oriented toward the dominant propagation direction is proposed to address the high computational complexity of three-dimensional modeling. Furthermore, a convolutional recurrent network was designed to estimate the complex spectrum of noise signal. A hierarchical long short-term memory module and a Squeeze-and-Excitation attention module were incorporated to capture dynamically varying noise features. In addition, a predictive compensation mechanism based on blank frame padding was proposed to train the neural network and mitigate system delay. Finally, noise was reduced by 10.29 dB and 8.76 dB when the villa elevator operates at 0.4 m/s and 1 m/s, respectively. And the corresponding A-weighted reductions were 7.62 dBA and 7.54 dBA.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"2744-2755"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149111367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yibo Lei, Sui Huang, Hongbin Chen, Dian Yang, Quan Liu, Zhiping Tan, Tingxu Han, Wei Lu, Liyang Xiang
{"title":"Development and evaluation of pk-Ctone: A computationally efficient strategy for enhanced Mandarin tone perception in cochlear implants.","authors":"Yibo Lei, Sui Huang, Hongbin Chen, Dian Yang, Quan Liu, Zhiping Tan, Tingxu Han, Wei Lu, Liyang Xiang","doi":"10.1121/10.0046666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046666","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Conventional cochlear implant (CI) strategies convey limited tonal information. Although fundamental frequency (F0)-based strategies, such as C-tone, which combines F0 extraction with amplitude envelope modulation, improve Mandarin tone perception, their high computational demands hinder integration into power- and resource-constrained devices. This study evaluates a lexical tone enhancement CI strategy, pk-Ctone, that employs a computationally efficient local extrema-based F0 detection algorithm. Acoustic evaluations on two Mandarin monosyllabic corpora assessed both the coarse-scale robustness and fine-scale fidelity of F0 detection. Computational operations required for F0 extraction were quantified, and a clinical trial with 62 participants compared Mandarin speech recognition using pk-Ctone versus a standard envelope-based baseline. Results showed that pk-Ctone reduced the computational operations for F0 extraction by more than 30-fold compared with C-tone. Although this efficiency gain incurred a penalty in fine-scale precision, pk-Ctone achieved improved coarse-scale robustness, as quantified by Accuracy and F1-score. Clinically, pk-Ctone yielded significant improvements in recognition of monosyllabic tones (+10.1% points, pp), monosyllabic words (+19.2 pp), and disyllabic words (+13.0 pp). These findings indicate that pk-Ctone, by preserving coarse-scale F0 tracking robustness while reducing computational cost, maintains clinical effectiveness despite some loss in fine-scale precision, offering a practical solution for power- and resource-constrained CI processors.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"2833-2844"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149111391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do dummy heads dream of low interaural coherence?","authors":"Manuj Yadav","doi":"10.1121/10.0046761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046761","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Reflections series takes a look back on historical articles from The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America that have had a significant impact on the science and practice of acoustics.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"R9-R10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149111394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Borehole reflection waveform inversion based on subarray decomposition.","authors":"Weihong Huang, Xiao He, Jiacheng Li, Jixin Yang, Dehua Chen","doi":"10.1121/10.0046848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046848","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High-resolution imaging of near-borehole structures and quantitative inversion is crucial for reservoir characterization. However, conventional acoustic logging is dominated by direct waves, limiting its investigation depth to the near-borehole invasion zone. Full-waveform inversion is a waveform-fitting inversion technique that offers high resolution and is not constrained by assumptions of homogeneity. To reconstruct deep formation properties and structures, we apply the method of borehole reflection waveform inversion to array acoustic logging data. By dividing the array into subarrays and exploiting the spatial correlation of adjoint wavefields, this approach implicitly suppresses crosstalk artifacts in the adjoint-state method under the framework of elastic waves. Additionally, energy weighting and anisotropic diffusion filtering are applied to precondition the gradient, effectively mitigating severe illumination imbalances and high-wavenumber noises. A frequency hierarchy strategy is further integrated to enhance convergence stability. This method provides a theoretical P-wave velocity reconstruction workflow for single-borehole deep acoustic sensing without adding significant computational complexity. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method reconstructs complex two-dimensional heterogeneities with high precision.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"3078-3092"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149194978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Child acquisition of complex consonants: The role of oral motor control in developing acoustic targetsa).","authors":"Anton Malmi, Claire Nance","doi":"10.1121/10.0046652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046652","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our study examines the role of oral motor control in the acquisition of acoustic targets for lingually complex consonants in Estonian by speakers from four age groups. We focus on children's production of secondarily palatalised and non-palatalised consonants where anatomical development and acquisition of motor control skills make differing predictions about the timing and nature of speech production. Our aim is to disentangle the contribution of, on the one hand, speech motor control development and, on the other hand, anatomical growth and articulator change in proportion. We examined oral motor control using a single syllable alternating motion rate diadochokinetic (DDK) task and studied the difference between the second formant (F2) and first formant (F1) using functional principal component analysis. Our results show that palatalised and non-palatalised productions differ significantly across all age groups, indicating children can produce palatalisation contrasts from age 3 years, but consistency in production increases with age. Results also show that children and adults with greater oral motor control skills are better able to produce the palatalisation contrast. These results suggest that anatomical proportions pre-dispose children toward early acquisition of the acoustic properties of palatalisation. However, adult-like production of the phonological contrast also depends on the acquisition of oral motor control skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"2859-2870"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149111342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GraftGIL-Net: A grafting framework on graph inductive learning networks for multi-label bird audio classification.","authors":"Noumida A, Rajeev Rajan","doi":"10.1121/10.0046672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046672","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The automatic analysis of bird vocalizations holds significant promise for conservation monitoring, ecology, and vocal behavioural studies. Existing bird call classification methods face difficulties in detecting multiple overlapping bird vocalizations. To address this challenge, we propose GraftGIL-Net, a grafting framework based on graph inductive learning networks for bird call classification. Initially, a graph named Mel-Graph is created from the Mel-spectrogram of the audio file using a trained DeepConvNet model. This graph is then fed to the proposed GraftGIL-Net for classification. The proposed method is evaluated on the Xeno-canto bird sound database and achieves a macro F1-score of 0.95.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"3119-3133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149194224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective model of fiber Bragg gratings for simulation of ultrasonic guided wave measurements using spectral finite elements.","authors":"Nina Kergosien, Antoine Gallet, Laurent Maurin, Guillemette Ribay, Guillaume Laffont, Arnaud Recoquillay","doi":"10.1121/10.0046811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046811","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper deals with the modeling of optical fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) dedicated to ultrasound measurements. It addresses the problem of modeling the impact of acoustic waves on such small transducers, with typical FBG lengths and optical fiber diameters several orders of magnitude smaller than the ultrasound's characteristic wavelength, especially with guided waves. The method adopted to model the behavior of such transducers can therefore severely affect computational performances and results. We propose here the use of a one-way coupling scheme, limiting the impact on the simulation of ultrasonic waves, while reproducing accurately the FBG transducer's response. This model is validated against experimental data, especially regarding the FBG's spectral response with respect to ultrasonic wavelength.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"2800-2809"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149111399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily Buss, Samantha J Gustafson, John H Grose, Lori J Leibold
{"title":"Maturation of auditory stream segregation in school-age children: Effects of signal repetition and frequency predictability.","authors":"Emily Buss, Samantha J Gustafson, John H Grose, Lori J Leibold","doi":"10.1121/10.0046847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046847","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In multi-source auditory environments, effective listening requires segregation and selective attention to sound streams of interest. School-age children often perform worse than adults under these conditions, but the component skills responsible for child-adult differences are poorly understood. This study measured masked detection thresholds for three groups of children (5-7, 8-10, and 11-13 yrs) and adults, all with normal hearing. The masker was a continuous stream of four-tone bursts, with the frequencies of those four tones randomized for each burst. The signal was a single tone added to one, two, four, or eight sequential bursts. Signal frequency was either 1000 Hz (fixed) or 1000 Hz ± 0.5 octave, randomly selected for each trial (variable). Overall, thresholds were lower for the fixed than variable signal frequency, and thresholds fell with increasing numbers of repeating signal bursts. Signal-frequency variability had differential effects as a function of age group and number of sequential signal bursts. While some aspects of the data are consistent with maturation of the ability to benefit from signal repetition in the context of a random-frequency masker, more research is needed to understand how segregation and selective attention change with age under these stimulus conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"3068-3077"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149194460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amateur singers' advantage in Mandarin tone perception and imitation.","authors":"Runqing Cheng, William Choi","doi":"10.1121/10.0046467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0046467","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Musical advantage in speech perception has been widely studied for instrumentalists, but it remains unclear whether singers share this benefit. In speech production, although singers' superiority has been observed relative to non-musicians, little is known about how they achieve this advantage. To address these gaps, this study investigated (i) whether singers outperformed non-musicians in Mandarin tone perception and imitation, (ii) whether singers' potential advantage in imitation depended on auditory feedback, and (iii) whether both groups' imitation improved across repetitions. Singers and non-musicians completed a Mandarin tone AXB discrimination task to evaluate their Mandarin tone perception. As for tone production, they completed a Mandarin tone word imitation task under two conditions-with and without auditory feedback. Results showed that singers achieved higher accuracy in tone perception, extending the OPERA hypothesis from Patel [(2011). Front Psychol. 2, 142; (2014) Hear. Res. 308, 98-108] by demonstrating that vocal training can also enhance auditory sensitivity to speech sounds. The singers also surpassed non-musicians in tone imitation, an advantage independent of auditory feedback, possibly reflecting reliance on somatosensory feedback or feedforward control. No effect of repetition was observed. Additionally, the high-level and high-falling tones appeared to rely more heavily on auditory feedback during imitation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"160 4","pages":"3040-3056"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149182253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}