Vincent Isnard, Véronique Chastres, Guillaume Andéol
{"title":"French version of the coordinate response measure corpus and its validation on a speech-on-speech task.","authors":"Vincent Isnard, Véronique Chastres, Guillaume Andéol","doi":"10.1121/10.0028059","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0028059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since its creation, the coordinate response measure (CRM) corpus has been applied in hundreds of studies to explore the mechanisms of informational masking in multi-talker situations, but also in speech-in-noise or auditory attentional tasks. Here, we present its French version, with equivalent content to the original version in English. Furthermore, an evaluation of speech-on-speech intelligibility in French shows informational masking with similar result patterns to the original data in English. This validation of the French CRM corpus allows to propose the use of the CRM for intelligibility tests in French, and for comparisons with a foreign language under masking conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141763038","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}
Auriane Boudin, Stéphane Rauzy, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache
{"title":"How is your feedback perceived? An experimental study of anticipated and delayed conversational feedback.","authors":"Auriane Boudin, Stéphane Rauzy, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache","doi":"10.1121/10.0026448","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0026448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents a different experiment examining the impact of feedback timing on its perception. Dialog sequences, featuring a main speaker's utterance followed by a listener's feedback, were extracted from spontaneous conversations. The original feedback instances were manipulated to be produced earlier, up to 1.5 s in advance, or to be delayed, up to 2 s later. Participants evaluated the feedback acceptability and engagement level of the listener. The findings reveal that 76% of the time feedback remains acceptable regardless of the delay. However, engagement decreases after a 1-s delay while no consistent effect is observed for feedback anticipation.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141565573","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}
Sarah Rose Bellavance, Amanda Eads, Aidan Katson, José Álvarez Retamales, Alden McCollum, Auromita Mitra, Lisa Davidson
{"title":"Vowel nasalization does not cue ambisyllabicity in American English nasals: Evidence from nasometrya).","authors":"Sarah Rose Bellavance, Amanda Eads, Aidan Katson, José Álvarez Retamales, Alden McCollum, Auromita Mitra, Lisa Davidson","doi":"10.1121/10.0027940","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0027940","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using visual spectrographic examination of vowel nasalization to diagnose the syllabic affiliation of phonologically ambisyllabic nasal consonants (e.g., gamma), Durvasula and Huang [(2017). Lang. Sci. 62, 17-36] argued that anticipatory vowel nasalization in these words patterns with word-medial codas. Using nasometry, the current study finds that anticipatory nasalization before monomorphemic and multimorphemic (scammer) ambisyllabic nasals differ from word-medial coda (gamble) and word-final nasals (scam), but not from other intervocalic nasals. Additionally, vowel nasalization is sensitive to the manner of the preceding phoneme. These findings demonstrate that quantifying anticipatory nasalization using nasometry differs from visual spectrographic criteria.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629465","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":"Spatially characterized pseudo-perfect diffuseness via finite-degree spherical harmonic diffuseness.","authors":"Tatsuhiro Tanaka, Makoto Otani","doi":"10.1121/10.0026466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0026466","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Perfectly diffuse sound fields play an important role in architectural acoustics and there are established theoretical characterizations of perfect diffuseness. Although sound fields in real rooms are diffuse to some extent, they are not perfectly diffuse, and therefore theories are required to describe pseudo-perfectly diffuse sound fields. Here, we aim to spatially characterize pseudo-perfect diffuseness via directional characterization of that, finite-degree spherical harmonic diffuseness. Our results show that finite-degree diffuse sound fields yield local spatial diffuseness, suggesting that spatial pseudo-perfect diffuseness is characterized using the effective radius of diffuseness.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141494524","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 simple method improving acoustic mode identification capability based on genetic algorithms.","authors":"Huanxian Bu, Jun Han, Yuqi Xiao, Jie Zhou","doi":"10.1121/10.0026465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0026465","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This letter develops a simple approach of duct mode identification and reconstruction based on genetic algorithms, which can extend the azimuthal mode order range compared to the conventional method based on the (spatial) discrete Fourier transform. The underlying principle is reconstructing the dominant mode from the modal identification forward model through optimization by exploiting the sparsity of the mode amplitude vector. The performance is experimentally demonstrated for detections of one and two azimuthal modes under noisy conditions with nondominant modes. Overall, the proposed genetic-algorithm-based framework for solving acoustic inverse problems is beneficial to duct acoustic testing, particularly design evaluations of fan blades and acoustic liners for aeroengines.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141473264","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}
Xianpeng Li, Yupeng Tai, Haibin Wang, Jun Wang, Shuo Jia, Yonglin Zhang, Weiming Gan
{"title":"A metric to quantify the time-varying characteristics of underwater acoustic communication channels.","authors":"Xianpeng Li, Yupeng Tai, Haibin Wang, Jun Wang, Shuo Jia, Yonglin Zhang, Weiming Gan","doi":"10.1121/10.0026601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0026601","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Underwater acoustic communication signals suffer from time dispersion due to time-varying multipath propagation in the ocean. This leads to intersymbol interference, which in turn degrades the performance of the communication system. Typically, the channel correlation functions are employed to describe these characteristics. In this paper, a metric called the channel average correlation coefficient (CACC) is proposed from the correlation function to quantify the time-varying characteristics. It has a theoretical negative relationship with communication performance. Comparative analysis involving simulations and experimental data processing highlights the superior effectiveness of CACC over the traditional metric, the channel coherence time.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141560404","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":"Contrast factor for standing-wave radiation forces on spheres: Series expansion in powers of sphere radius.","authors":"Philip L Marston","doi":"10.1121/10.0027928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0027928","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recently researchers often normalize the radiation force on spheres in standing waves in inviscid fluids using an acoustic contrast factor (typically denoted by Φ) that is independent of kR where k is the wave number and R is the sphere radius. An alternative normalization uses a function Ys that depends on kR. Here, standard results for Φ are extended as a power series in kR using prior Ys results. Also, new terms are found for fluid spheres and applied to the kR dependence of Φ for strongly responsive and weakly responsive examples. Partial-wave phase shifts are used in the derivation.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141617765","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}
Xianhui Wang, Jonathan Ge, Leo Meller, Ye Yang, Fan-Gang Zeng
{"title":"Speech intelligibility and talker identification with non-telephone frequencies.","authors":"Xianhui Wang, Jonathan Ge, Leo Meller, Ye Yang, Fan-Gang Zeng","doi":"10.1121/10.0027938","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0027938","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the telephone band (0.3-3 kHz) provides sufficient information for speech recognition, the contribution of the non-telephone band (<0.3 and >3 kHz) is unclear. To investigate its contribution, speech intelligibility and talker identification were evaluated using consonants, vowels, and sentences. The non-telephone band produced relatively good intelligibility for consonants (76.0%) and sentences (77.4%), but not vowels (11.5%). The non-telephone band supported good talker identification only with sentences (74.5%), but not vowels (45.8%) or consonants (10.8%). Furthermore, the non-telephone band cannot produce satisfactory speech intelligibility in noise at the sentence level, suggesting the importance of full-band access in realistic listening.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141763039","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 tonotopic cochlea puzzle: A resonant transmission line with a \"non-resonant\" response peak.","authors":"Renata Sisto, Arturo Moleti","doi":"10.1121/10.0028020","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0028020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The peaked cochlear tonotopic response does not show the typical phenomenology of a resonant system. Simulations of a 2 D viscous model show that the position of the peak is determined by the competition between a sharp pressure boost due to the increase in the real part of the wavenumber as the forward wave enters the short-wave region, and a sudden increase in the viscous losses, partly counteracted by the input power provided by the outer hair cells. This viewpoint also explains the peculiar experimental behavior of the cochlear admittance (broadly tuned and almost level-independent) in the peak region.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141728397","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}
Jay C Spendlove, Tracianne B Neilsen, Mark K Transtrum
{"title":"Information geometry analysis example for absolute and relative transmission loss in a shallow ocean.","authors":"Jay C Spendlove, Tracianne B Neilsen, Mark K Transtrum","doi":"10.1121/10.0026449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0026449","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The model manifold, an information geometry tool, is a geometric representation of a model that can quantify the expected information content of modeling parameters. For a normal-mode sound propagation model in a shallow ocean environment, transmission loss (TL) is calculated for a vertical line array and model manifolds are constructed for both absolute and relative TL. For the example presented in this paper, relative TL yields more compact model manifolds with seabed environments that are less statistically distinguishable than manifolds of absolute TL. This example illustrates how model manifolds can be used to improve experimental design for inverse problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141473265","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}