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The relationship between distortion product otoacoustic emissions and audiometric thresholds in the extended high-frequency range. 失真产物耳声发射与扩展高频范围听阈之间的关系。

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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0036143

Samantha N Hauser, Alexandra R Hustedt-Mai, Anna Wichlinski, Hari M Bharadwaj

{"title":"The relationship between distortion product otoacoustic emissions and audiometric thresholds in the extended high-frequency range.","authors":"Samantha N Hauser, Alexandra R Hustedt-Mai, Anna Wichlinski, Hari M Bharadwaj","doi":"10.1121/10.0036143","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0036143","url":null,"abstract":"Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) and behavioral audiometry are routinely used for hearing screening and assessment. These measures provide related information about hearing status as both are sensitive to cochlear pathologies. However, DPOAE testing is quicker and does not require a behavioral response. Despite these practical advantages, DPOAE testing is often limited to screening only low- and mid-frequencies. Variation in ear canal acoustics across ears and probe placements has resulted in less reliable measurements of DPOAEs near 4 kHz and above where standing waves commonly occur. Stimulus calibration in forward pressure level and responses in emitted pressure level can reduce measurement variability. Using these calibrations, this study assessed the correlation between audiometry and DPOAEs in the extended high frequencies where stimulus calibrations and responses are most susceptible to the effect of standing waves. Behavioral thresholds and DPOAE amplitudes were negatively correlated, and DPOAE amplitudes in emitted pressure level accounted for twice as much variance as amplitudes in conventional sound pressure level units. Both measures were correlated with age. These data show that extended high-frequency DPOAEs are sensitive to differences in audiometric thresholds and highlight the need to consider calibration techniques in clinical and research applications of DPOAEs.","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"157 3","pages":"1889-1898"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11925483/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143657585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Underwater vibro-acoustics analysis of plates with sharkskin inspired surface modifications.

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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0036151

Aninda Pal, Ritwik Ghoshal, Ranadev Datta

{"title":"Underwater vibro-acoustics analysis of plates with sharkskin inspired surface modifications.","authors":"Aninda Pal, Ritwik Ghoshal, Ranadev Datta","doi":"10.1121/10.0036151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036151","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the vibro-acoustic response of a coupled fluid-loaded rectangular isotropic plate, incorporating point masses inspired by sharkskin biomimetic surface treatment. Previous studies examined changes in plate vibro-acoustic response induced by a hydrodynamic field or point mass loading separately. The research focuses on studying sound radiation characteristics of plates undergoing multimode transverse vibrations, emphasizing submerged plates with modified sharkskin wettability. A semi-analytical model considers the coupled effect of hydrodynamic added mass and denticle mass for surface modification. The sharkskin layer model employs the Dirac delta function to represent the array pattern, where small denticle mass is applied to upper and lower plate surfaces. Evaluation of hydrodynamic added mass involves analyzing fluid kinetic energy, eliminating singularity through a polar coordinate transformation, and using Rayleigh integration for analytical evaluation of underwater sound radiation characteristics. The proposed mathematical formulation is validated by comparing frequency responses and vibro-acoustic characteristics of bare plates (in vacuo and in water) with existing literature, showing good agreement. A comparative analysis contrasts vibro-acoustic features of plates resembling sharkskin with unmodified or bare plates, extensively examining the impact of surface modification across different boundary conditions, baseplate material, and denticle spacing. The proposed analytical solutions may aid in designing underwater devices for acoustic wave manipulation.","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"157 3","pages":"2206-2220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143719856","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}

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The effects of ethnic bias and face on identification, accentedness judgements and intelligibility of Cantonese accents in Hong Kong.

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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0035783

Grace Wenling Cao, Him Cheung, Peggy Mok

{"title":"The effects of ethnic bias and face on identification, accentedness judgements and intelligibility of Cantonese accents in Hong Kong.","authors":"Grace Wenling Cao, Him Cheung, Peggy Mok","doi":"10.1121/10.0035783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035783","url":null,"abstract":"Social information such as a talker's ethnicity, gender, and age are found to affect accent perception and attitudes. While existing research primarily focuses on English-dominant communities, this study aims to fill the gap by examining the impacts of ethnic bias and face on three Cantonese accents in Hong Kong. Nine groups of 20 Hong Kong Cantonese listeners were exposed to three Cantonese accents (i.e., Hong Kong local Cantonese, Mandarin-accented, and English-accented Cantonese) in three conditions of visual cues (i.e., a silhouette, a South Asian face and a White face). For accent identification, seeing a South Asian face in a mismatch condition led to more errors compared to seeing a White face in the same condition. For intelligibility, an enhancement of intelligibility was found when the face and accent were misaligned (e.g., an English accent matched with a South Asian face), supporting the general adaptation mechanism instead of the expectation mechanism. We argue that listeners might perceive South Asian and White faces as the same broad social category \"foreigners/outgroup members,\" resulting in a similar enhancement effect in the aligned and misaligned conditions. A dual-activation mechanism is proposed to account for the complementary effect of phonological and visual cues on accent perception.","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"157 3","pages":"1618-1631"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143567476","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}

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Psychoacoustic evaluation of different fan designs for an urban air mobility vehicle with distributed propulsion systema).

IF 2.1 2区物理与天体物理

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0036228

Stephen Schade, Roberto Merino-Martinez, Antoine Moreau, Susanne Bartels, Robert Jaron

{"title":"Psychoacoustic evaluation of different fan designs for an urban air mobility vehicle with distributed propulsion systema).","authors":"Stephen Schade, Roberto Merino-Martinez, Antoine Moreau, Susanne Bartels, Robert Jaron","doi":"10.1121/10.0036228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036228","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed propulsion systems are developed to power a new generation of aircraft. However, it is not known yet which noise emissions these propulsion systems produce, which psychoacoustic characteristics such systems exhibit, and how the generated noise is perceived. This paper investigates how fans with fewer stator than rotor blades affect the noise perception of a distributed propulsion system intended for an urban air mobility vehicle, which is equipped with 26 low-speed ducted fans. Three fan designs with different tonal to broadband noise ratio and opposite dominant noise radiation directions are examined. An analytical process is applied to determine the noise emission, propagate the sound through the atmosphere, auralize the flyover signals, and calculate psychoacoustic metrics. A validation and comparison with A320 turbofan engines at takeoff is provided. The results indicate that the distributed propulsion system generates noise signatures with complex directional characteristics and high sharpness. By applying tonal noise reduction mechanisms at source, a significant effective perceived noise level reduction is achieved for the considered fan stages with fewer stator than rotor blades. In addition, tonality, loudness and roughness are reduced well above one noticeable difference compared to a baseline fan and similar or even lower values are achieved than with turbofans.","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"157 3","pages":"2150-2167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143709916","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}

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Auditory localization of multiple stationary electric vehicles.

IF 2.1 2区物理与天体物理

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0036248

Leon Müller, Jens Forssén, Wolfgang Kropp

{"title":"Auditory localization of multiple stationary electric vehicles.","authors":"Leon Müller, Jens Forssén, Wolfgang Kropp","doi":"10.1121/10.0036248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036248","url":null,"abstract":"Current regulations require electric vehicles to be equipped with acoustic vehicle alerting systems (AVAS), radiating artificial warning sounds at low driving speeds. The requirements for these sounds are based on human subject studies, primarily estimating detection time for single vehicles. This paper presents a listening experiment assessing the accuracy and time of localization using a concealed array of 24 loudspeakers. Static single- and multiple-vehicle scenarios were compared using combustion engine noise, a two-tone AVAS, a multi-tone AVAS, and a narrowband noise AVAS. The results of 52 participants show a significant effect of the sound type on localization accuracy and time for all evaluated scenarios (p<0.001). Post-hoc tests revealed that the two-tone AVAS is localized significantly worse than the other signals, especially when simultaneously presenting two or three vehicles with the same type of sound. The multi-tone and noise AVAS are generally on par but localized worse than combustion noise for multi-vehicle scenarios. For multiple vehicles, the percentage of failed localizations drastically increased for all three AVAS signals, with the two-tone AVAS performing worst. These results indicate that signals typically performing well in a single-vehicle detection task are not necessarily easy to localize, especially not in multi-vehicle scenarios.","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"157 3","pages":"2029-2041"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143692448","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}

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Formant-based vowel categorization for cross-lingual phone recognition.

IF 2.1 2区物理与天体物理

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0036222

Marija Stepanović, Christian Hardmeier, Odette Scharenborg

{"title":"Formant-based vowel categorization for cross-lingual phone recognition.","authors":"Marija Stepanović, Christian Hardmeier, Odette Scharenborg","doi":"10.1121/10.0036222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036222","url":null,"abstract":"Multilingual phone recognition models can learn language-independent pronunciation patterns from large volumes of spoken data and recognize them across languages. This potential can be harnessed to improve speech technologies for underresourced languages. However, these models are typically trained on phonological representations of speech sounds, which do not necessarily reflect the phonetic realization of speech. A mismatch between a phonological symbol and its phonetic realizations can lead to phone confusions and reduce performance. This work introduces formant-based vowel categorization aimed at improving cross-lingual vowel recognition by uncovering a vowel's phonetic quality from its formant frequencies, and reorganizing the vowel categories in a multilingual speech corpus to increase their consistency across languages. The work investigates vowel categories obtained from a trilingual multi-dialect speech corpus of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish using three categorization techniques. Cross-lingual phone recognition experiments reveal that uniting vowel categories of different languages into a set of shared formant-based categories improves cross-lingual recognition of the shared vowels, but also interferes with recognition of vowels not present in one or more training languages. Cross-lingual evaluation on regional dialects provides inconclusive results. Nevertheless, improved recognition of individual vowels can translate to improvements in overall phone recognition on languages unseen during training.","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"157 3","pages":"2248-2262"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143719929","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}

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Adaptation rate and persistence across multiple sets of spectral cues for sound localization.

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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0036056

Paul Friedrich, Marc Schönwiesner

{"title":"Adaptation rate and persistence across multiple sets of spectral cues for sound localization.","authors":"Paul Friedrich, Marc Schönwiesner","doi":"10.1121/10.0036056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036056","url":null,"abstract":"The adult auditory system adapts to changes in spectral cues for sound localization. This plasticity was demonstrated by modifying the shape of the pinnae with molds. Previous studies investigating this adaptation process have focused on the effects of learning one additional set of spectral cues. However, adaptation to multiple pinna shapes could reveal limitations in the auditory system's ability to encode discrete spectral-to-spatial mappings without interference and thus help determine the mechanism underlying spectral cue relearning. In the present study, listeners learned to localize sounds with two different sets of earmolds within consecutive adaptation periods. To establish both representations in quick succession, participants underwent daily sessions of sensory-motor training. Both pinna modifications severely disrupted vertical sound localization, but participants recovered within each 5-day adaptation period. After the second adaptation, listeners were able to access three different sets of spectral cues for sound localization. Participants adapted to both sets of earmolds with equal success, and learning a second set of modified cues did not interfere with the previous adaptation. We found no indication of meta-adaptation as the rate of adaptation to the second molds was not increased.","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"157 3","pages":"1543-1553"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143542424","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}

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Mouth rhythm as a "packaging mechanism" of information in speech: A proof of concept.

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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0035944

Lei He

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Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: A dual task study.

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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0035883

Patti Adank, Han Wang, Taylor Hepworth, Stephanie A Borrie

{"title":"Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: A dual task study.","authors":"Patti Adank, Han Wang, Taylor Hepworth, Stephanie A Borrie","doi":"10.1121/10.0035883","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0035883","url":null,"abstract":"Listeners can adapt to noise-vocoded speech under divided attention using a dual task design [Wang, Chen, Yan, McGettigan, Rosen, and Adank, Trends Hear. 27, 23312165231192297 (2023)]. Adaptation to noise-vocoded speech, an artificial degradation, was largely unaffected for domain-general (visuomotor) and domain-specific (semantic or phonological) dual tasks. The study by Wang et al. was replicated in an online between-subject experiment with 4 conditions (N = 192) using 40 dysarthric sentences, a natural, real-world variation of the speech signal listeners can adapt to, to provide a closer test of the role of attention in adaptation. Participants completed a speech-only task (control) or a dual task, aiming to recruit domain-specific (phonological or lexical) or domain-general (visual) attentional processes. The results showed initial suppression of adaptation in the phonological condition during the first ten trials in addition to poorer overall speech comprehension compared to the speech-only, lexical, and visuomotor conditions. Yet, as there was no difference in the rate of adaptation across the 40 trials for the 4 conditions, it was concluded that perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech could occur under divided attention, and it seems likely that adaptation is an automatic cognitive process that can occur under load.","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"157 3","pages":"1598-1611"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11905114/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Angular spatial compounding of diffraction corrected images improves ultrasound attenuation measurements. 衍射校正图像的角度空间复合可改进超声衰减测量。

IF 2.1 2区物理与天体物理

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1121/10.0036124

Mingrui Liu, James W Wiskin, Gregory J Czarnota, Michael L Oelze

{"title":"Angular spatial compounding of diffraction corrected images improves ultrasound attenuation measurements.","authors":"Mingrui Liu, James W Wiskin, Gregory J Czarnota, Michael L Oelze","doi":"10.1121/10.0036124","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0036124","url":null,"abstract":"Breast cancer is a leading cause of death for women. Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) and ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) are quantitative imaging techniques that have been investigated for management of breast cancer. QUS and USCT can generate ultrasound attenuation images. In QUS, the spectral log difference (SLD) is a technique that can provide estimates of the attenuation coefficient slope. Full angular spatial compounding (FASC) can be used with SLD to generate attenuation maps with better spatial resolution and lower estimate variance. In USCT, high quality speed of sound (SOS) images can be generated using full wave inversion (FWI) method, but attenuation images created using FWI are often of inferior quality. With the QTI Breast Acoustic CTTM Scanner (QT Imaging, Inc., Novato, CA), raw in-phase and quadrature data were used to implement SLD combined with FASC. The capabilities of SLD were compared with FWI through simulations, phantom experiments, and in vivo breast experiments. Results show the SLD resulted in improved accuracy in estimating lesion sizes compared to FWI. Further, SLD images had lower variance and mean absolute error (MAE) compared to FWI of the same samples with respect to the attenuation values (reducing MAE by three times) in the tissue mimicking phantoms.","PeriodicalId":17168,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America","volume":"157 3","pages":"1638-1649"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11890159/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143575703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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