Acoustics todayPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1121/at.2022.18.1.41
R. Lutfi
{"title":"William A. Yost and the Psychoacoustics of Human Sound Source Perception","authors":"R. Lutfi","doi":"10.1121/at.2022.18.1.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/at.2022.18.1.41","url":null,"abstract":"We think of our eyes as the primary channel through which we perceive the world, “seeing is believing,” but, in fact, most of our surroundings at any given moment are out of view. For much of the information about the world around us, we depend on our ears. We hear the approaching bus in the din of traffic and avoid stepping into the street; we hear a familiar voice in the clamor of the crowd and recognize an old friend; we hear music playing, glasses clinking, people laughing, a cocktail party is underway next door. Such seemingly simple acts of recognition are so automatic that we rarely give them any thought, but they are examples of an extraordinary ability to perceive the world through sound, unmatched in accuracy and scale by our most sophisticated machinerecognition systems (Szabo et al., 2016).","PeriodicalId":72046,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics today","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63527352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acoustics todayPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1121/AT.2021.17.1.18
M. C. Kruger
{"title":"Ultrasonic Hearing in Cats and Other Terrestrial Mammals","authors":"M. C. Kruger","doi":"10.1121/AT.2021.17.1.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2021.17.1.18","url":null,"abstract":"What is the first thought that comes to your mind when you read the word “ultrasound”? Most readers of Acoustics Today might associate ultrasound with pregnancy or perhaps specialized detection technology on ships and airplanes. Some might also think about echolocating animals. But what about terrestrial mammals? The ones that walk the earth among us? Although the use of ultrasound in echolocating mammals (e.g., bats, dolphins, and whales) is well-known, our understanding of ultrasonic perception in nonflying terrestrial mammals is limited. Here we discuss the frequencies perceived and the biological importance of ultrasound for four land-dwelling mammals as well as what is currently known about the various areas in the brain that allow these animals to process ultrasound.","PeriodicalId":72046,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics today","volume":"17 1","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63525354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acoustics todayPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1121/AT.2021.17.1.26
L. Polka
{"title":"The Ins and Outs of Baby Talk","authors":"L. Polka","doi":"10.1121/AT.2021.17.1.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2021.17.1.26","url":null,"abstract":"It is usually no secret when there is a baby in the room. Infants attract our attention, and we immediately and instinctively change our speech when we engage with them. “Baby talk” fills the air. This distinct speech register, also known as motherese or more formally as infant-directed speech (IDS), has been observed across diverse languages and cultures. Babies demonstrate a clear preference for IDS. The strong endorsement of IDS by infants continues to fuel the curiosity of scientists, clinicians, and caregivers about this common speech form and how it shapes infant development.","PeriodicalId":72046,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics today","volume":"17 1","pages":"26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63525568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acoustics todayPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1121/at.2021.17.3.40
R. Ruben
{"title":"Why Was Your Hearing Tested: Two Centuries of Progress","authors":"R. Ruben","doi":"10.1121/at.2021.17.3.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/at.2021.17.3.40","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72046,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics today","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63526575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acoustics todayPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1121/at.2021.17.3.51
W. Yost
{"title":"David M. Green and Psychoacoustics","authors":"W. Yost","doi":"10.1121/at.2021.17.3.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/at.2021.17.3.51","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72046,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics today","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63526794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acoustics todayPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1121/at.2021.17.4.72
M. Haberman
{"title":"Technical Committee Report: Committee on Engineering Acoustics","authors":"M. Haberman","doi":"10.1121/at.2021.17.4.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/at.2021.17.4.72","url":null,"abstract":"The TCEA includes scientists and engineers with a very wide range of interests and expertise. Indeed, the area of engineering acoustics is highly cross-disciplinary, encompassing the theory and practice of creating tools to generate and investigate acoustical phenomena and then to apply the knowledge of acoustics to practical utility. This includes the modeling, design, and fabrication of acoustical and vibrational transducers, arrays, and transduction systems in all media and frequency ranges. Engineering acoustics is further concerned with the design of acoustical instrumentation, metrology, and calibration of acoustical systems as well as the associated aspects of fabrication and computational techniques as they relate to the generation and sensing of acoustical phenomena.","PeriodicalId":72046,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics today","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63526840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acoustics todayPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1121/at.2022.18.1.14
H. Bunnell
{"title":"Speech Synthesis: Toward a “Voice” for All","authors":"H. Bunnell","doi":"10.1121/at.2022.18.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/at.2022.18.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"Text to speech (TTS) has become so much a part of our everyday lives thanks to Alexa, Google, Siri, and many others that we have come to know (if not always love) that it is difficult to recall a time when it was not so. Synthetic voices like those for Siri and others fill multiple roles today. They deliver announcements of important information over public address systems in noisy places like airports where high intelligibility of the speech in noise is crucial to ensure the information they carry is heard correctly. A synthetic voice may be the first entity a customer interacts with when contacting a company and it is important for the voice, as a representative of the company, to present a natural and pleasing voice quality that is representative of the company’s image. Synthetic voices serve as the only voice for individuals whose own voice is lost due to injury or a progressive neurological disease like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; also called Lou Gehrig’s disease or motor neuron disease [MND]) or who have a congenital dysarthria due to a condition such as cerebral palsy. And TTS voices allow blind or nonliterate users to read content from news stories, books, and computer screens while giving busy people an opportunity to “read” email even when driving their car.","PeriodicalId":72046,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics today","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63527047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acoustics todayPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1121/at.2021.17.4.57
J. H. Miller
{"title":"Featured Sound Perspectives: A Conversation with ASA Publications Editor in Chief Jim Lynch","authors":"J. H. Miller","doi":"10.1121/at.2021.17.4.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/at.2021.17.4.57","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72046,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics today","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63527219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acoustics todayPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1121/AT.2021.17.1.67
D. Tucci
{"title":"Hearing and Speech Research at the NIDCD","authors":"D. Tucci","doi":"10.1121/AT.2021.17.1.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/AT.2021.17.1.67","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72046,"journal":{"name":"Acoustics today","volume":"17 1","pages":"67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63526304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
京公网安备 11010802042870号
