Minneapolis, Minnesota
175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
7–11 May 2018
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1pSA8 – Thermoacoustics of solids – Can heat generate sound in solids?
After many centuries of thermoacoustic science in fluids, it seems natural to wonder if such a mechanism could also exist in solids.
1aSP2 – Propagation effects on acoustic particle velocity sensing
The propagation environment has numerous other states that we also need to study to have a more complete picture.
1pPPB – Emotion Recognition from Speaker-dependent low-level acoustic features
Speech emotion recognition, extracting the emotional state of speakers from acoustic data, plays an important role in enabling machines to be ‘intelligent’
3aPA8 – High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC)
The motivation for this research stems from NASA’s proposed High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC), which, if successful, would lead to a possible month-long human presence above the cloud layer of Venus.
2pNS8 – Noise Dependent Coherence-Super Gaussian based Dual Microphone Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aid Application using Smartphone
the coherence between speech and noise signals is used to obtain a Speech Enhancement gain function, in combination with a Super Gaussian Joint Maximum a Posteriori single microphone SE gain function.
1pPA – Assessment of Learning Algorithms to Model Perception of Sound
Sound waves are basically fluctuations of air pressure at points in a space. While this simple physical description of sound captures what sound is, its perception is much more complicated involving physiological and psychological processes.
1pPP – Trends that are shaping the future of hearing aid technology
Hearing aid technology is experiencing a faster rate of change than it has in the history of its existence
3aUW8 – You can see it when you know how to see it
Similar to using a flashlight to find your lost car keys in the woods, sound wave pulses are used to ‘light up’ the sea floor.
3pPA5 – Hearing Aids that Listen to Your Phone
Researchers are using high frequency sound waves and ultrasound to communicate between a smart phone and hearing aid
3aAA10 – Localization and externalization in binaural reproduction with sparse HRTF measurement grids
Spatial audio gives the listener the sensation that sound arrives from the surrounding 3D space, leading to immersive virtual soundscapes.
1pBA6 – Tickling neurons with ultrasound
Researchers have been studying the noninvasive stimulation or inhibition of both the central and peripheral nervous system in animals.
3aEAa4 – Creating virtual touch using ultrasonic waves
Researchers present “virtual touch” technology which enables generation of haptic feedback in mid-air by the efficient creation and manipulation of ultrasonic waves
1pUW4 – Videos of ultrasonic wave propagation through transparent acrylic objects in water for introductory physics courses produced using refracto-vibrometry
To produce these videos, an optical technique called refracto-vibrometry was used.
4aPP7 – The Loudness of an Auditory Scene
Researchers discuss the perceived loudness of an auditory scene when several people talk at about the same time.
2aEA3 – Insect Ears Inspire Miniature Microphones
Researchers developed a variety of microphones based on the Ormia insect ear mechanism
4aSC12 – When it comes to recognizing speech, being in noise is like being old
As people age, understanding speech becomes more challenging, especially in noisy situations like parties or restaurants.
1aPP7- Say what? Brief periods of hearing loss in childhood can have consequences later in life
Binaural hearing helps us to discern and learn speech sounds as infants, to listen to the teacher’s voice rather than the chatter of nearby students as children, and to navigate and communicate in a noisy world as adults.
2pAB2 – Sound of wood-boring larvae and its automated detection
A major problem of automated detection of wood-boring larvae is detecting insect-induced vibrational pulses with noise in the background
2aEA6 – A MEMS condenser microphone based acoustic receiver for totally implantable cochlear implants
The goal of the present project is to develop and validate an implantable microphone for a totally implantable cochlear implant system.
2aPA6 – An acoustic approach to assess natural gas quality in real time
Infrared laser spectroscopy offers amazing measurement resolution for gas sensing applications, ranging between 1 part per million (ppm) down to a few parts per billion
5aPA3 – Elastic Properties of a Self-Healing Thermal Plastic
Researchers used Resonant Acoustic and Ultrasonic Spectroscopy to improve understanding of a self-healing thermal plastic ionomer composed of polyethylene co-methacrylic acid
5aSC – This is se{w,r}ious: using acoustics, phonetic transcription, and naïve judgments to better understand how children learn (or fail to learn) the /r/ sound
For many children with developmental speech disorders, /r/ errors (which usually sound like the /w/ sound) are very persistent, even when other speech errors have been successfully corrected.
1pAB4 – Size Matters To Engineers, But Not To Bats
Crunching the numbers revealed profound differences between the way engineers approach sonar and the way bats do.
4bPA2 – Perception of sonic booms from supersonic aircraft of different sizes
In order for regulators to consider lifting the ban and introducing a new rule for supersonic flight, surveys of the public’s reactions to the new sonic boom noise are required
1aPP1 – With two ears and a cochlear implant, each ear is tuned differently
Imagine listening to the world with two ears that are tuned differently from each other. This is in fact the experience for many people listening with two ears where one of the two ears has a cochlear implant.
4aMU6 – How Strings Sound Like Metal: The Illusion of the Duck-Herders Musical Cape
The illusive sound of the bundengan is produced by plucking a set of strings equipped with small bamboo clips and a number of long, thin bamboo plates fitted on the resonating dome
1aNS3 – Low-frequency sound control by means of bio-inspired and fractal designs
Researchers develop labyrinthine acoustic metamaterials inspired by the structure of spider webs or arranged along fractal space-filling curves.
4pBA5 – Plane-wave vector-flow imaging of adult mouse heart
The ability to apply the vector-flow approaches to mice would allow for direct translational studies that would facilitate understanding how the complex blood flow patterns in the heart related to healthy heart function.
5aPA – A Robust Smartphone Based Multi-Channel Dynamic-Range Audio Compression for Hearing Aids
With proposed compression, the multi-channel DRC does not limit within advanced hardware, which is costly such as hearing aids or laptops.
2pBA5 – Sensing Osteoporosis by Acoustic Waves of Ultrasound
In this study, a new noninvasive method is proposed for detection of osteoporosis and osteopenia.
3aAA7 – Fast and perceptually convincing simulation of room acoustics: Shoebox rooms with bells and whistles
RAZR approximates the geometry of real rooms by a simple, empty shoebox-shaped room and calculates the first sound reflections from walls
1aAO5 – Underwater sound from recreational swimmers, divers, surfers, and kayakers
Researchers record themselves and friends performing a number of recreational water sports activities in a quiet Olympic pool
2pSA – Seismic-infrasound-acoustic-meteorological sensors to dynamically monitor the natural frequencies of concrete dams
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is leading research using seismic-infrasound-acoustic-meteorological (SIAM) arrays to determine structural characteristics of critical infrastructure.
2aAAa – The face of the facility: acoustic design of lobbies
Successful acoustic design is sensitive to the goals of the facility with careful balancing of surface shaping, finish treatments, and sound isolation.
2pAA4 – Acoustical balance between the stage and the pit in the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires
In the case of the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, well known for its outstanding acoustical quality [3], achieving the proper balance is not easy given its large size: a huge main volume of 20,000 m3 coupled to a stage tower of 30,000 m3.
1aPP2 – Restoring stereo hearing to people with one deaf ear
Cochlear implants have been explored as a way to restore some hearing to the deaf ear for people with single-sided deafness.
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