ASA Press Releases
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Press Releases
Newsworthy stories from past and present press conferences and publications.
Wall Design Centers Experience of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals #ASA190
Textured walls improve speech clarity, making an easier listening experience for all.
Tired? We Can Hear It in Your Voice #ASA190
Physical exertion affects the pitch, intensity, and temporal characteristics of speech, making speech recognition difficult for systems used by emergency response personnel and wearable devices.
Creating an Affordable and Sustainable Marimba #ASA190
Honduran rosewood, which makes up the bars of most marimbas, is rare and expensive.
Challenging Biases About Vocal Fry #ASA190
Holistic studies that challenge social biases suggest that young women are not the group most likely to speak with vocal fry, also called creaky voice.
How Effective Are Torpedo Bats, Exactly? #ASA190
Acoustic analysis can reveal the benefits of baseball’s newest invention.
Whip It Good: How Olympic Weightlifting Relies on a Barbell’s ‘Whip’ #ASA190
Elite lifters use barbell vibrations to their advantage, which vary from bar to bar.
He Said, She Said: Why Men and Women Experience the World Differently #ASA190
Hormones affect hearing in varying ways over the course of a person’s life.
AI Content Moderation Takes a Lesson from Economics #ASA190
Economic theory of attention can help understand and increase reliability of AI models searching for online hate speech.
Why Do Brown Bats Stop Feeding During Fireworks? #ASA190
What acoustics can teach us about animal behaviors during disruptive events like firework shows.
Developing a Passive Antenna Sensor from a Mosquito Muse #ASA190
Sensitive, segmented antennae serve as inspiration for developing acoustic sensors with low energy consumption.
The Birds and the Babies: Humans and Zebra Finches Have a Similar Technique for Learning to Speak #ASA190
Humans and zebra finches both rely on caregiver reinforcement to learn complex vocalizations.
Safer Surgeries Through Laser-Induced Acoustic Imaging #ASA190
Photoacoustic imaging can reveal subsurface features and guide surgeons for fewer complications.