{"title":"Perception of PIN-PEN merger in Southern and non-Southern speakers of American English.","authors":"Irene B R Smith, Meghan Clayards","doi":"10.1121/10.0037204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0037204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Merged productions of /ɪ/ and /ɛ/ before nasal consonants is well documented in Southern U.S. English, but perception studies on this merger are limited. A two-alternative forced-choice perception task asked U.S. listeners from inside and outside the South to respond to stimuli on continua from bid to bed and bin to Ben. Vowel nasality and coda nasality were fully crossed in the stimuli. The results confirm that Southern speakers are to some degree merged in perception, and that the presence of a nasal coda, and not vowel nasality, conditions merger in perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144801171","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}
Charlotte Garcia, Fergio Sismono, Tobias Goehring, François Guérit, Dorothée Arzounian, Robert P Carlyon
{"title":"A comparison of electrophysiological measures for characterizing the cochlear-implant electrode-neuron interface.","authors":"Charlotte Garcia, Fergio Sismono, Tobias Goehring, François Guérit, Dorothée Arzounian, Robert P Carlyon","doi":"10.1121/10.0038746","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0038746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The health of the auditory nerve is a key factor for hearing outcomes in cochlear-implant patients. Many electrophysiological markers of auditory-neural health have been proposed, with varying predictive power and independence from non-neural factors. The \"Failure Index\" (FI), the ratio between stimulation current level and response magnitude of the electrically-evoked compound action potential (eCAP) was compared to the Panoramic eCAP method. Both methods predicted localized areas of reduced neural responsiveness in a group of human cochlear-implant users, but the FI showed a greater dependence on a non-neural factor, namely, the distances between the cochlear-implant electrodes and the auditory nerves.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12333378/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144786132","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":"Strong and weak Head-related transfer functions: The eHRTF analytical framework.","authors":"Michele Geronazzo","doi":"10.1121/10.0038961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article introduces an analytical framework for modeling head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) from a listener-centered perspective. The distinction between strong (or general) HRTFs, aiming for idealized physical acoustic fidelity, and weak (or narrow) HRTFs, prioritizing perceptual adequacy in task-specific contexts, frames the contrast in multiple contrasting definitions and scientific methodologies by drawing inspiration from the debate in artificial intelligence. The proposed formalism adopts a Bayesian structure that models HRTFs through a state-space formulation capturing anatomical, contextual, experiential, and task-related factors: the eHRTF. The \"e\" emphasizes the egocentric perspective, transforming HRTFs from static measurements into mutable auditory representations continuously updated through the listener's feedback. Satisfaction regions are defined in probabilistic terms and characterize how different classes of HRTFs, i.e., individual, generic, super, and personalized, meet perceptual requirements under varying tasks and their complexity.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144981274","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":"Age and sentence context effects on auditory temporal processing in noise.","authors":"Zilong Xie","doi":"10.1121/10.0038985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038985","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the effects of age and sentence context on perceiving speech temporal cues in noise. Adults 18 to 81 yrs of age with self-reported normal hearing performed a phonemic categorization task using the dent/tent contrast with varied voice-onset times (VOTs). Target words were embedded in sentences that biased perception toward \"dent,\" \"tent,\" or provided no bias, presented in speech-shaped noise at a 0 dB signal-to-noise ratio. Results showed reduced VOT processing with increasing age in neutral and dent-biasing contexts but not in tent-biasing contexts. Findings suggest that contextual influences can shape age-related changes in temporal processing in challenging listening conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144981298","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}
Juan Pablo Escudero, Jean-Philippe Groby, Vincent Pagneux
{"title":"Broadband-omnidirectional absorption using inclined wiremesh gratingsa).","authors":"Juan Pablo Escudero, Jean-Philippe Groby, Vincent Pagneux","doi":"10.1121/10.0038993","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0038993","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the aim of achieving strong absorption over a wide range of frequencies and angles of incidence, the reflection of an acoustic wave by a rigidly-backed periodic layer of inclined ultrathin resistive sheet is studied theoretically and numerically. It appears that the structure exhibits either almost omnidirectional large absorption over a subwavelength frequency band for large resistivity of the wiremesh or large absorption over a broad frequency band for medium resistivity. Both optimal values are obtained for large inclination angles. These findings provide promising perspectives for the design of broadband omnidirectional subwavelength sound-absorbing devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144877144","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}
Leila Hatch, Megan McKenna, Rianna Burnham, Kaitlin Frasier, Christine Gabriele, Sean Hastings, Samara Haver, Anastasia Kunz, Alex MacGillivray, Chloe Malinka, Jessica Morten, Lindsey Peavey Reeves, Krista Trounce, Svein Vagle, Jason Wood, Vanessa ZoBell
{"title":"A call for comparable measurements of underwater radiated noise related to vessel speed reduction programs.","authors":"Leila Hatch, Megan McKenna, Rianna Burnham, Kaitlin Frasier, Christine Gabriele, Sean Hastings, Samara Haver, Anastasia Kunz, Alex MacGillivray, Chloe Malinka, Jessica Morten, Lindsey Peavey Reeves, Krista Trounce, Svein Vagle, Jason Wood, Vanessa ZoBell","doi":"10.1121/10.0038636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038636","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marine vessels are mandated or requested to reduce speed to meet operational, economic, and conservation goals. Vessel speed reduction (VSR) is a key strategy in global efforts to reduce ocean noise. Many regional VSR programs incorporate underwater acoustic monitoring to assess reductions in underwater radiated noise (URN) from vessels. Drawing from North American VSR programs, approaches to measuring URN reduction are assessed and progress toward robust metrics, scalable methods, and integrative measures are documented. Improved alignment across programs is recommended across programs to achieve measurement comparability to advance VSR evaluation and contribute to global underwater noise reduction and sustainable shipping goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144981325","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":"Retraction: \"Role of perceptual integration in pitch discrimination at high frequencies\" [JASA Express Lett. 2, 084402 (2022)].","authors":"Anahita H Mehta, Andrew J Oxenham","doi":"10.1121/10.0038752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144786133","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":"Source localization in shallow ocean using a deep learning approach with range-dependent sound speed profile modeling.","authors":"Jing Guo, Juan Zeng","doi":"10.1121/10.0038764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038764","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Model-based deep learning approaches provide an alternative scheme to address the problem of the shortage of training data. However, performance degradation caused by sound speed profile (SSP) mismatch remains a critical challenge, particularly in shallow-water environments influenced by internal waves. In this paper, a simple range-dependent SSP model is integrated into the deep learning approach for source localization. The network trained on simulated data generated with the range-dependent SSP model performs well on validation data and generalizes to experimental test data after transfer learning with limited experimental samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144801172","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}
Jianli Huang, Yu Wang, Zaixiao Gong, Haiqiang Niu, Jun Wang, Haibin Wang
{"title":"Fast deconvolved beamforming for arbitrary arrays based on off-grid sparse Bayesian learning.","authors":"Jianli Huang, Yu Wang, Zaixiao Gong, Haiqiang Niu, Jun Wang, Haibin Wang","doi":"10.1121/10.0038987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038987","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The deconvolved beamforming (dCv) improves spatial resolution without expanding the array aperture but fails for the shift-variant beam pattern and the real targets, which are not located on the sampling grids. To solve them, this Letter extends the off-grid sparse Bayesian learning (OGSBL) to dCv because the generalized convolutional model considers the beam pattern at each angle in beam domain. OGSBL reduces modeling errors by parameterizing sampled locations in coarse grids. Controlling the number of output beams from conventional beamforming to cover the spatial area of interest could accelerate convergence without sacrificing accuracy. The simulation results confirm the good performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144981308","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}
Karolina Prawda, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Sebastian J Schlecht
{"title":"Cropping room impulse responses using unimodal regression of their covariance.","authors":"Karolina Prawda, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Sebastian J Schlecht","doi":"10.1121/10.0038960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038960","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The presence of unavoidable background noise limits the signal-to-noise ratio in measured room impulse responses (RIRs). A common solution is to crop the RIR to the time interval where the signal dominates the background noise, but finding the correct onset and truncation points is challenging. It usually requires estimating the sound decay rate and noise floor, which is burdened with uncertainty. In this study, we propose an RIR cropping method based on the covariance between two repeated RIRs and its inherent monotonicity. Evaluation on measured RIRs shows the proposed method is highly robust in different scenarios and outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839221","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}