{"title":"Cascade cochlear modeling using instantaneous nonlinearity and fixed filter parameters.","authors":"Yung-Chia Huang, Václav Vencovský, Yi-Wen Liu","doi":"10.1121/10.0043935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043935","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We propose the time-domain loudness model with static nonlinearity (TDLM-SNL), a cascade cochlear model with memoryless gain saturators. By separating linear passive and nonlinear active paths, the model reproduces key cochlear features, including compressive growth, level-dependent frequency tuning, and both cubic and quadratic distortion products. Moreover, polynomial nonlinearities provide explicit control over the strength of nonlinear terms, which can reduce higher-order harmonics compared to the hyperbolic tangent. These results suggest that TDLM-SNL provides an efficient framework that may be applied to large-scale auditory simulation and hearing impairment modeling.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148145681","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}
Zihao Zhou, Yang Shi, Yixin Yang, Jiancheng Yu, Zhiduo Tan, Chentian Xu, Shuxue Yan, Menglong Liu, Long Yang, Jie Sun
{"title":"Bearings-only acoustic source localization method using two distributed gliders and deep ocean experimental validation in the South China Sea.","authors":"Zihao Zhou, Yang Shi, Yixin Yang, Jiancheng Yu, Zhiduo Tan, Chentian Xu, Shuxue Yan, Menglong Liu, Long Yang, Jie Sun","doi":"10.1121/10.0044207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044207","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Passive acoustic localization using distributed mobile underwater sensor networks has emerged as an important research subject. This paper presents a bearings-only localization method for two distributed gliders equipped with conformal uniform circular arrays. The paper proposes a Sage-Husa adaptive extended Kalman filter (SHEKF) that dynamically estimates measurement noise covariance to handle different sensor measurement quality, enabling accurate localization. A deep ocean experiment was conducted in the South China Sea using two gliders separated by a 6.37 km baseline. The SHEKF method achieved a root-mean-square error of 0.58 km, demonstrating effective performance for underwater acoustic target localization.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148297608","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}
Karen Perta, Zhaoyan Zhang, Donna Erickson, Ryoko Hayashi, Toshiyuki Sadanobu
{"title":"MRI and acoustic study of angry screaming versus trained belting with vocal health implications.","authors":"Karen Perta, Zhaoyan Zhang, Donna Erickson, Ryoko Hayashi, Toshiyuki Sadanobu","doi":"10.1121/10.0044161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044161","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intense vocalizations, such as screaming and yelling, may yield negative vocal health consequences. The purpose of this study was to investigate physiological and acoustic differences between emotional versus learned high-intensity voice productions (i.e., primitive screaming versus trained belt for healthy yelling). We hypothesized that (1) angry screaming would be produced with constrictive vocal tract and laryngeal actions, similar to swallowing physiology; and (2) trained belting would override natural constrictive tendencies to produce intense voice with reduced phonotraumatic risk. In this study, we present single-subject magnetic resonance imaging and acoustic observations that are consistent with our hypotheses.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148254747","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":"Localization system for urban search and rescue using smartphone microphones.","authors":"Ayumi Matsumoto, Hiroki Miyazako, Takaaki Nara","doi":"10.1121/10.0044095","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0044095","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Methods for rescuing survivors buried under rubble generated in earthquakes are urgently needed. In this study, we propose a method for searching for victims' smartphones using audible sound. A searcher generates dipole sound fields using four loudspeakers, which are measured by the victim's smartphone. Then, the azimuth of the smartphone in the searcher's coordinates is computed and transmitted to the searcher. The proposed method was validated via experiments conducted in a training field for earthquake disasters. The results revealed that the searcher can approach the smartphone by repeatedly estimating its direction and moving the sound source toward it.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148159343","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}
Zhaoyan Zhang, Anna Wisniowiecki, Melissa Treinkman, Bette Wo, Emma Glenane, Diego E Razura, M Eugenia Castro, Brian E Applegate, Michael M Johns
{"title":"Imaging vocal fold medial surface vibration across chest, head, whistle, and creaky voice production using optical coherence tomography: A single subject study.","authors":"Zhaoyan Zhang, Anna Wisniowiecki, Melissa Treinkman, Bette Wo, Emma Glenane, Diego E Razura, M Eugenia Castro, Brian E Applegate, Michael M Johns","doi":"10.1121/10.0044145","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0044145","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This single-subject study used optical coherence tomography to image medial surface vibratory patterns during the production of chest, head, whistle, and creaky voice. Chest and head registers differed in medial surface thickness, with the chest voice produced with thicker vocal folds, greater vibratory amplitude, and a larger vertical phase difference than the head voice and the other voice qualities. The whistle voice was produced with tightly approximated vocal folds that were thicker than in the head voice and showed small but measurable vibrations. An alternating creaky and regular voice was produced without observable changes in vocal fold thickness.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13261892/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148207116","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":"Individual variability in boundary-induced modulation of consonants and tones in Thai.","authors":"Alif Silpachai, Jeremy Steffman","doi":"10.1121/10.0044132","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0044132","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Consonants and lexical tones following a prosodic boundary can be produced differently at a higher prosodic level compared to a lower level. It is unclear how much individual variability underlies such boundary-induced modulation, which has largely been reported aggregated across individuals. This study examined the voice onset times of three stops and the maximum fundamental frequency of three tones in Thai in a syllable immediately after an intonational phrase boundary compared to a word boundary. Group-level boundary-induced modulation shows substantial speaker variation with different patterns of modulation. Different speakers might value syntagmatic and/or paradigmatic contrast enhancement in differing degrees.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148165922","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}
Jiati Li, Bin Wang, Qihang Xiao, Yuting Meng, Yiwang Huang
{"title":"Frequency difference multi-branch multi-task learning for underwater source localization in mismatched environments.","authors":"Jiati Li, Bin Wang, Qihang Xiao, Yuting Meng, Yiwang Huang","doi":"10.1121/10.0043948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043948","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Model mismatches including array tilt and sound speed profile (SSP) mismatch are common in practice and degrade the performance of model-based deep learning methods for underwater source localization. This paper proposes a frequency-difference-based multi-branch multi-task learning method for source range and depth estimation, which uses frequency-difference processing to reduce mismatch effects and multi-branch feature fusion to improve localization accuracy. Trained on simulated data from a non-tilted array and average SSP, the network performs well on mismatched test sets and generalizes to experimental data.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148159350","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":"Ghost poisoning: Making users invisible to speaker verification models.","authors":"Nicholas Mehlman, Shrikanth Narayanan","doi":"10.1121/10.0044156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0044156","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We demonstrate that speaker verification models are amenable to the creation of \"ghost speakers.\" In particular, we devise a model poisoning method based on contrastive learning that causes the system to perform very poorly for a specific individual, while largely maintaining expected accuracy for all other users. This provides the ghost with a robust layer of identity obfuscation that could be exploited for malicious purposes. We test our method using three popular speaker verification models and demonstrate that it increases the equal error rate for the ghost by a factor of 10 or 20 times.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148221115","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}
Sujay Balebail, Loranzie S Rogers, Zongyu Li, Anton Reicherter, Cassandra Kim, Andy Jinpyo Kim, Arion Norris Chao, Andrew D Brown, Joseph A Sisneros
{"title":"Fishing with sound: Insights into the plainfin midshipman's reproductive ecology from field acoustic playbacks.","authors":"Sujay Balebail, Loranzie S Rogers, Zongyu Li, Anton Reicherter, Cassandra Kim, Andy Jinpyo Kim, Arion Norris Chao, Andrew D Brown, Joseph A Sisneros","doi":"10.1121/10.0043817","DOIUrl":"10.1121/10.0043817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The long-duration advertisement \"hums\" produced by type I male plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) are tonal signals consisting of a fundamental frequency and multiple harmonics. Using acoustic playback of synthetic, hum-like stimuli under natural conditions, we found that the fundamental frequency is likely required for females' final entry into a type I male's nest, whereas higher harmonics may play a limited role. We found no evidence of phonotaxis in type I and type II males. Additionally, the observed decrease in body size of captured individuals over the breeding season suggests that larger individuals migrate earlier to spawning sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147824188","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":"Efficiency improvements to an auditory-inspired synchrony capture filterbank.","authors":"Vijay Kumar Peddinti","doi":"10.1121/10.0043594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0043594","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper extends prior work on an auditory inspired adaptive synchrony capture filterbank (SCFB) architecture for acoustic frequency tracking. The earlier SCFB architecture used a weighted sum of frequency discriminator loop (FDL) and a phased locked loop (PLL) to track frequency components precisely. The key improvements in this paper are the introduction of adaptive FDL and PLL weights and the incorporation of a place theory-based mechanism to preferentially activate fewer filters, resulting in enhanced biomimicry and computational efficiency. The effectiveness of these improvements is demonstrated using synthetic time-varying signals, simultaneously highlighting the algorithm's robust denoising capability under challenging noise conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":73538,"journal":{"name":"JASA express letters","volume":"6 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147847054","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}