Wayfaring Sounds is the title of a composition for electronically produced sounds, and the heading of a collection of answers and comments to questions that most frequently arise in discussions about “electronic music”. The record offers a brief introduction into the world of electronic sounds as well as the compositions Wayfaring Sounds and Anepigraphe. The supplementary text consists of vario...

Simple reaction times (RTs) were used to measure differences in processing time between natural animal sounds and artificial sounds. When the artificial stimuli were sequences of short tone pulses, the animal sounds were detected faster than the artificial sounds. The animal sounds were then compared with acoustically modified versions (white noise modulated by the temporal envelope of the anim...

One of the most dramatic and widely appreciated natural history insights of recent decades has been the recording of the songs of the male humpback whale. Humans have valued the complexity and haunting tones produced by one of the largest marine mammals. The songs have been thought to play a key role in the mating process in their winter feeding grounds, which, for the Atlantic population, occu...

In this paper, automatic segmentation of parasitic speech sounds in speech corpora for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis is presented. The automatic segmentation is, beside the automatic detection of the presence of such sounds in speech corpora, an important step in the precise localisation of parasitic sounds in speech corpora. The main goal of this study is to find out whether the segmentation ...

The aim of these experiments was to compare conceptual priming for linguistic and for a homogeneous class of nonlinguistic sounds, impact sounds, by using both behavioral (percentage errors and RTs) and electrophysiological measures (ERPs). Experiment 1 aimed at studying the neural basis of impact sound categorization by creating typical and ambiguous sounds from different material categories (...

Several investigators have noted external gallop sounds to be of higher amplitude than their corresponding internal sounds (S3 and S4). In this study we hoped to determine if S3 and S4 are transmitted in the same manner as S1. In 11 closed-chest dogs, external (apical) and left ventricular pressures and sounds were recorded simultaneously with transducers with identical sensitivity and frequenc...

Objectives: Speech diadochokinesis (DDK) is defined as the ability to produce repetitive and fast oral movements. The aim of this study is to compare the DDK rate between young and elderly Persian adults. Methods: In this study, 244 normal adults (122 males and 122 females) were divided two groups: young people (aged 20-49) and elderly people(aged 50-69). Diadochokinesis was performed based on...

Noise complaints in restaurants have been accelerating and unpleasant sounds erode customer satisfaction. Restaurant ambient noise, such as background physical influence satisfaction effectively controlling the sound environment is challenging, particularly situational generated by customers. Situational address how customers are influenced other dining same restaurant highlight a type of that ...

Listeners use lexical knowledge to adjust their prelexical representations of speech sounds in response to the idiosyncratic pronunciations of particular speakers. We used an exposure-test paradigm to investigate whether this type of perceptual learning transfers across syllabic positions. No significant learning effect was found in Experiment 1, where exposure sounds were onsets and test sound...