{"title":"Using residual H1* for voice quality researcha).","authors":"Mykel Loren Brinkerhoff, Grant McGuire","doi":"10.1121/10.0035881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035881","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the most common ways of assessing voice quality is through the spectral slope measure H1*-H2*. However, Chai and Garellek [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152(3), 1856-1870 (2022)] propose and demonstrate the robustness of a new measure-residual H1*. In this study, we test the reliability of residual H1* in capturing voice quality contrasts in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. We find that residual H1* is a more robust measure of voice quality than H1*-H2* and can capture the differences in voice quality in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec, which supports the use of this measure in voice quality research.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143460995","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}
Zhaokai Zhai, Fenghua Li, Feilong Zhu, Bo Zhang, Duo Zhai, Junjie Mao
{"title":"Synthetic adaptive matched field processing for moving source range estimation in deep water.","authors":"Zhaokai Zhai, Fenghua Li, Feilong Zhu, Bo Zhang, Duo Zhai, Junjie Mao","doi":"10.1121/10.0035772","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0035772","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adaptive matched field processing (AMFP) has proven effective for source localization in deep-water environments. However, when the target is in motion, the need for numerous snapshot samples can lead to distortion in covariance estimation, degrading AMFP performance. A synthetic AMFP method has been proposed to compensate for the phase of multi-snapshot signals, enhancing AMFP performance. Additionally, a rough estimation of target velocity is obtained. The efficacy of the method has been validated through numerical simulations and experimental data, with results showing that, within a 9 km range, the average localization error is reduced by 1.45 km compared to traditional AMFP.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366907","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":"Phase of the seabed frequency-domain reflection coefficient: Measurements and modelinga).","authors":"Charles W Holland","doi":"10.1121/10.0035583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035583","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The phase of the seabed frequency-domain reflection coefficient potentially contains valuable information on the geoacoustic properties in a layered/refracting seabed. However, heretofore, the phase has not been exploited. Measurements of phase are presented in an area of thick mud at the New England Mud Patch. In addition, a model is presented along with the modeling results. While this is only a first step towards understanding the potential value of exploiting the phase, it seems clear that in some instances, the phase not only contains valuable geoacoustic information, but carries a higher information content than the magnitude.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143082563","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}
Jean Lecoulant, Abdel-Ouahab Boudraa, Samuel Pinson
{"title":"Non-negative matrix factorization based single-channel source-separation of passive underwater acoustic signals in deep sea.","authors":"Jean Lecoulant, Abdel-Ouahab Boudraa, Samuel Pinson","doi":"10.1121/10.0035936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035936","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We use non-negative matrix factorization for source separation on ultra-low frequency passive-acoustic data from a single-channel recording acquired in deep sea. Non-negative matrix factorization decomposes the spectrogram into a spectral-component matrix and a time-encoding matrix. Detectors use known time-frequency features to group components from the same source and reconstruct spectrograms of blue whale calls, seismic sounds, and ship noise. Data are separated at low computational cost and without learning step. The separation assessment using scale-invariant signal-to-distortion ratio on spectrograms of simulated reference data is satisfying. Source separation on ocean-bottom seismometer data from the Southern Indian Ocean provides convincing results.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143451171","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}
Jacob P DeFilippis, Bruce D Cornuelle, Andrew J Lucas, W S Hodgkiss, W A Kuperman
{"title":"Measuring phase difference to sense small-scale ocean sound-speed structure.","authors":"Jacob P DeFilippis, Bruce D Cornuelle, Andrew J Lucas, W S Hodgkiss, W A Kuperman","doi":"10.1121/10.0035566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035566","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Observations from a broadband acoustic experiment in deep water probe the temporal behavior of mid-frequency propagation through sound-speed fine structure advected by internal waves. The measured phases of two arrivals with similar propagation paths at 1.8 km range are sampled every 63.5 ms for 30 min. Simultaneous measurements of ocean fine structure near the propagation are used to model the changing arrival phase. The phase difference between arrivals is analyzed to understand changes in the underwater acoustic channel at the meter scale. A comparison between modeled and observed phase difference highlights an internal wave driven signal in the acoustic observations.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143082561","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}
Najeem Shajahan, William D Halliday, David R Barclay, Humfrey Melling, Andrea Neimi, Stephen J Insley
{"title":"Wind-driven ambient noise characteristics in the Western Canadian arctic.","authors":"Najeem Shajahan, William D Halliday, David R Barclay, Humfrey Melling, Andrea Neimi, Stephen J Insley","doi":"10.1121/10.0035591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035591","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An analysis of ambient noise data collected from seven locations in the western Canadian Arctic at varying depths (30-350 m) during ice-free seasons over a period of five years (2018-2022) has been conducted. The measured noise level correlates well with wind speed after the removal of contaminated (sources other than wind) noise data. The characteristics of wind noise are predicted by fitting a multi-parameter empirical model to data. Results from the model are compared with existing empirical wind noise models and validated using data collected from one of the measurement locations.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143082578","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":"A fast measure of spatial separation for release from masking and its relation to intelligibility.","authors":"Z Ellen Peng, Victoria Sweeney","doi":"10.1121/10.0035840","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0035840","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study validates a fast measure for spatial release from masking-minimum angular separation (MAS), the smallest spatial separation between a target and two-talker maskers to improve speech intelligibility by 20%. Three psychophysical methods to estimate MAS were compared, including the constant stimuli, adaptive staircase, and progressive tracking, which revealed no significant difference in the estimated threshold on the group level with bootstrapping. Results suggest that the MAS measurement can be expedited using the progressive tracking method without compromising robustness in the threshold estimation. The non-linear relationship between target-masker spatial separation, signal-to-noise ratio, and accuracy is explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11844435/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143412028","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":"The negativity bias is encoded in language.","authors":"Alexander Kilpatrick","doi":"10.1121/10.0035924","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0035924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the relationship between emotional valence, phonemic bigram surprisal, and memory in American English. It reveals that negative words carry more Shannon's information-a measure of the transitional probability of phonemes within a word - than neutral or positive words and that increased information is associated with better memory performance. Specifically, words with negative valence and high surprisal were associated with increased hit rates and d' scores in an existing memory recognition experiment. These findings offer insights into the interaction between language structure and cognitive processing, with broader implications for memory and the evolution of communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143451172","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":"Thank you to our 2024 reviewers.","authors":"Charles C Church","doi":"10.1121/10.0035590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143082574","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":"Improving transfer function measurements for three-dimensionally printed waveguides using a sand layer.","authors":"Rémi Blandin, Patrick Häsner, Peter Birkholz","doi":"10.1121/10.0035803","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0035803","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The reciprocity principle is widely used for acoustic measurements, including three-dimensionally printed waveguide transfer functions. Previous studies revealed unexpected deviations in the 1-4 kHz range, likely due to secondary transmission paths. This study tests the effectiveness of a sand layer in reducing these paths and evaluates measurement variability and robustness to harmonic distortion. The method, tested on an affected replica and two additional replicas, shows that the sand layer effectively minimizes secondary transmission paths. The measurement system proves robust against harmonic distortion, ensuring good reproducibility, with results compared to simulations for validation.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366905","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}