The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Aug 1, 2024
Predictions of gradient degree of lenition of voiceless and voiced stops in a corpus of Argentine Spanish are evaluated using three acoustic measures (minimum and maximum intensity velocity and duration) and two recurrent neural network (Phonet) meas...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Aug 1, 2024
Previous research demonstrated the potential of using speakers as sensors to detect ear canal conditions. This study continues that effort by using a single speaker to measure electrical impedance across various acoustic loads. Electrical impedance d...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Jul 1, 2024
Understanding speech in noisy environments is a challenging task, especially in communication situations with several competing speakers. Despite their ongoing improvement, assistive listening devices and speech processing approaches still do not per...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Jun 1, 2024
For cochlear implant (CI) listeners, holding a conversation in noisy and reverberant environments is often challenging. Deep-learning algorithms can potentially mitigate these difficulties by enhancing speech in everyday listening environments. This ...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Mar 1, 2024
Cochlear implant (CI) is currently the vital technological device for assisting deaf patients in hearing sounds and greatly enhances their sound listening appreciation. Unfortunately, it performs poorly for music listening because of the insufficient...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Jan 1, 2024
In indoor environments, reverberation often distorts clean speech. Although deep learning-based speech dereverberation approaches have shown much better performance than traditional ones, the inferior speech quality of the dereverberated speech cause...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Oct 1, 2023
Acoustic spectroscopy and neural networks (NNs) are applied to on-line real-time measurement of particle size distribution (PSD) during wet milling of pharmaceutical nanocrystals. A method for modeling the relationship between acoustic attenuation sp...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Jul 1, 2023
Many odontocetes produce whistles that feature characteristic contour shapes in spectrogram representations of their calls. Automatically extracting the time × frequency tracks of whistle contours has numerous subsequent applications, including speci...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Jul 1, 2023
This paper proposes a deep transfer learning (DTL)-based variable Doppler frequency-hopping binary frequency-shift keying underwater acoustic communication system. The system uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) as the demodulation module of the...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
May 1, 2023
Recent years have brought considerable advances to our ability to increase intelligibility through deep-learning-based noise reduction, especially for hearing-impaired (HI) listeners. In this study, intelligibility improvements resulting from a curre...