Melville, New York, October 25, 2004
The following are lay language versions of meeting papers being presented at the 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America to be held November 15-19 in San Diego. Since ASA meeting papers are not vetted by scientific referees, please keep in mind that some of the research described in the laypapers may not have yet been peer reviewed.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Study
of Acoustic Correlates Associated with Emotional Speech by Serdar Yildirim,
Sungbok Lee, Murtaza Bulut, Chul Min Lee, Abe Kazemzadeh, Carlos Busso, and
Shrikanth Narayanan
Synthesis
of Human-Like Laughter: Toward Machine Synthesis of Human Speech by Shiva
Sundaram and Shrikanth Narayanan
Fifty
Years of Progress in Speech Synthesis by Juergen Schroeter
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Rock
Art Acoustics by Lauren Ronsse
Acoustics
at the Shrine of St. Werburgh by David Lubman
Chemical
Detection With a MEMS Microphone by Michael Pedersen
Testing
Infant Dolphin Hearing by Paul Nachtigall, Michelle Yuen, T.Aran
Mooney and Kristen Taylor
A Potential Explanation for Marine Mammal Strandings by Lawrence Crum, Michael Bailey, Steven Kargl, and Thomas Matula
Engines
for a "Silent" Aircraft by Cesare Hall
Whispering
Songs by Michael Kiefte
Simulating
Synchronized Calling with a Wireless Sensor Network by Kenneth D. Frampton,
Efosa Ojomo, Praveen Mudindi, and Isaac Amundson
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Perfect
Pitch in Tone Language Speakers Carries Over to Music by Diana Deutsch,
Trevor Henthorn, Elizabeth Marvin, and HongShuai Xu
Constant
Interval Distance Between Resonance Peaks of Spanish Vowels Sung at High Pitch
by Sopranos by Eduardo Castro-Sierra, Miguel Zenker, Adrián
Poblano, & Alberto Ramírez-Treviño
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Ten
Years of Classroom Acoustical Design by Angelo Campanella
How
to Pitch-Match Drumsticks--10,000 Times a Day by George Bissinger
Why
Do Non-Native Speakers Have a Foreign Accent? A Three-Dimensional Perspective
by Amee P. Shah
The
Sweet Spot of a Hollow Baseball or Softball Bat by Dan Russell
Using
Light and Sound to Improve Medical Imaging by Charles A. DiMarzio
Sound,
As We See It: A Better Way to Diagnose Noise Sources by Ravinder Beniwal
and Sean F. Wu
6+
Years of Acoustic Thermometry in the North Pacific Ocean:
A Cycle of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation by Brian D. Dushaw, B. D.
Cornuelle, M. Dzieciuch, W. H. Munk, P. F. Worcester, and J.A. Colosi
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Vocal Expression by Horses: Nickers, Whinnies, and
Squeals by David G. Browning and Peter M. Scheifele
English and French Classical Music Reflect the Melody
and Rhythm of Speech in the Two Cultures by Aniruddh D. Patel