Vasileios Chatziioannou, Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà, Alex Hofmann
{"title":"Physics-based playability maps for single-reed woodwind instruments.","authors":"Vasileios Chatziioannou, Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà, Alex Hofmann","doi":"10.1121/10.0025281","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0025281","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Musical instrument playability can be analyzed by visualizing a subspace defined by musicians' control parameters. This is common for bowed-string instruments in the form of Schelleng diagrams. Such diagrams can be populated either through experimental measurements or physical modeling. It was recently suggested to use similar diagrams for analyzing wind instrument playability. This study explores this direction using a physical model, previously validated against experimental measurements. It is shown that reed beating needs to be taken into account before playability analysis. This could help arrive at specific reed and mouthpiece designs according to the musicians' desires.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140103012","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}
{"title":"Generating functional for Green's functions of fluid-loaded structures.","authors":"Douglas M Photiadis, Mauricio Villa","doi":"10.1121/10.0024996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0024996","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A key step in applying the auxiliary superfield method to complex systems is the representation of the Green's function of the system as derivatives of a generating functional. This representation is known to be valid for Hermitian systems, but this precludes the application of the method to systems with fluid loading or damping. Here, it is demonstrated that the known representation continues to be valid for fluid-loaded and damped systems. Thus, the auxiliary superfield method may be applied to such systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140145046","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}
Abigail L Noyce, Leonard Varghese, Samuel R Mathias, Barbara G Shinn-Cunningham
{"title":"Perceptual organization and task demands jointly shape auditory working memory capacity.","authors":"Abigail L Noyce, Leonard Varghese, Samuel R Mathias, Barbara G Shinn-Cunningham","doi":"10.1121/10.0025392","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0025392","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Listeners performed two different tasks in which they remembered short sequences comprising either complex tones (generally heard as one melody) or everyday sounds (generally heard as separate objects). In one, listeners judged whether a probe item had been present in the preceding sequence. In the other, they judged whether a second sequence of the same items was identical in order to the preceding sequence. Performance on the first task was higher for everyday sounds; performance on the second was higher for complex tones. Perceptual organization strongly shapes listeners' memory for sounds, with implications for real-world communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10966505/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140208856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passive sea ice thickness inference using cryophones.","authors":"D Benjamin Reeder, John E Joseph, S Kyle Wheeler","doi":"10.1121/10.0025241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025241","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mechanical properties of Arctic sea ice can be inferred by observations of in-ice propagation of compressional, shear, and flexural waves. During the 1980s, impulsive signals were generated by a lead ball or sledgehammer dropped onto the sea ice, and the inference required observation of wave speeds. During ICEX20 and ARCEX23, passive cryophone observations were made of naturally occurring compressional wave resonances. Average first-year ice thicknesses during ICEX20 and ARCEX23 were inferred to be 1.3 and 1.6 m, respectively; these are consistent with independent observations and indicate the potential for remote, autonomous monitoring of sea ice thickness.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140030007","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}
Jessica B Desrochers, Lora J Van Uffelen, Sarah E Webster
{"title":"Acoustic arrival predictions using oceanographic measurements and models in the Beaufort Sea.","authors":"Jessica B Desrochers, Lora J Van Uffelen, Sarah E Webster","doi":"10.1121/10.0025133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025133","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acoustic propagation in the Beaufort Sea is particularly sensitive to upper-ocean sound-speed structure due to the presence of a subsurface duct known as the Beaufort duct. Comparisons of acoustic predictions based on existing Arctic models with predictions based on in situ data collected by Seaglider vehicles in the summer of 2017 show differences in the strength, depth, and number of ducts, highlighting the importance of in situ data. These differences have a significant effect on the later, more intense portion of the acoustic time front referred to as reverse geometric dispersion, where lower-order modes arrive prior to the final cutoff.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140208855","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}
{"title":"Combining range-general and range-specific techniques for late-time focused image reconstructiona).","authors":"Kyle S Dalton, Daniel C Brown, Thomas E Blanford","doi":"10.1121/10.0025237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025237","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) is an acoustic method for detecting objects in an environment. Conventional SAS image reconstruction techniques invert a forward model based on geometric scattering and straight-line propagation. Acoustic features that do not fit this model, such as multiple scattering and late-time returns, appear out of focus. This paper describes an image reconstruction technique that selectively applies range-general and range-specific methods to improve the focus of late-time returns while maintaining image quality away from the focal plane. The technique is demonstrated on experimental data and compared with a range-specific algorithm.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140029711","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}
{"title":"The perception of code-switched speech in noise.","authors":"Maria Fernanda Gavino, Matthew Goldrick","doi":"10.1121/10.0025375","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0025375","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates heritage bilingual speakers' perception of naturalistic code-switched sentences (i.e., use of both languages in one sentence). Studies of single word perception suggest that code-switching is more difficult to perceive than single language speech. However, such difficulties may not extend to more naturalistic sentences, where predictability and other cues may serve to ameliorate such difficulties. Fifty-four Mexican-American Spanish heritage bilinguals transcribed sentences in noise in English, Spanish, and code-switched blocks. Participants were better at perceiving speech in single language blocks than code-switched blocks. The results indicate that increased language co-activation when perceiving code-switching results in significant processing costs.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140159747","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}
Mel Cosentino, Cristina Marcolin, Emily T Griffiths, Estel Sánchez-Camí, Jakob Tougaard
{"title":"Dolphin and porpoise detections by the F-POD are not independent: Implications for sympatric species monitoring.","authors":"Mel Cosentino, Cristina Marcolin, Emily T Griffiths, Estel Sánchez-Camí, Jakob Tougaard","doi":"10.1121/10.0025304","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0025304","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The F-POD is designed for passive acoustic monitoring of odontocetes. The offline classifiers can identify and separate porpoise-like sounds from dolphin-like sounds. We show that these two classifiers are not working independently. Run together, virtually no detections of both species were reported within the same minute, whereas 10% of the detection positive minutes were reported positive for both species when the two classifiers were run sequentially. This has important implications for interpretation of data in areas containing both species groups, and we call for reporting all analysis details in such studies and for further description and analysis of the classifiers.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140103010","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}
Jorge Wuth, Rodrigo Mahu, Israel Cohen, Richard M Stern, Néstor Becerra Yoma
{"title":"A unified beamforming and source separation model for static and dynamic human-robot interaction.","authors":"Jorge Wuth, Rodrigo Mahu, Israel Cohen, Richard M Stern, Néstor Becerra Yoma","doi":"10.1121/10.0025238","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0025238","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper presents a unified model for combining beamforming and blind source separation (BSS). The validity of the model's assumptions is confirmed by recovering target speech information in noise accurately using Oracle information. Using real static human-robot interaction (HRI) data, the proposed combination of BSS with the minimum-variance distortionless response beamformer provides a greater signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) than previous parallel and cascade systems that combine BSS and beamforming. In the difficult-to-model HRI dynamic environment, the system provides a SNR gain that was 2.8 dB greater than the results obtained with the cascade combination, where the parallel combination is infeasible.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140029710","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}
{"title":"Modeling and simulation of underwater acoustic propagation through a random distribution of ice blocks.","authors":"Nicholas P Chotiros, Sverre Holm","doi":"10.1121/10.0025395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025395","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acoustic propagation through a random distribution of 1 m ice cubes, from 100 to 1000 Hz, was simulated in a 3D finite element model. The effective sound speed and attenuation as functions of frequency were calculated from the simulated signals. Attempts were made to fit a number of models to the wave speed and attenuation, including single scattering, lossy water, and Biot approximations. An extended Biot model, developed for acoustic propagation in granular seabed sediments, was able to fit the simulation up to 300 Hz. Beyond this frequency, the simulation shows that multiple scattering dominates.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140186476","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}