Podcast episode about the acoustic analysis of Taylor Swift's changing vowels! featuring Miski Mohamed and myself

Taylor Swift changed her accent when living in different cities. Miski Mohamed and I analyzed the acoustics of her vowel articulation, showing key features of Southern accent during Taylor’s time in Nashville, and lowered voice pitch during her time in New York City pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

Using Ant-Man’s voice as a lesson on voice acoustics and vocal tract length www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0qx...

Want to vocode speech? You can use our paper and code! This is a technique used to control spectral resolution and other factors that are important for understanding cochlear implants github.com/ListenLab/Vo... pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

Preparing to teach phonetics / acoustics in the fall? Here are some class videos that might be helpful for you! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

use R to pinpoint where a sound frequency falls on the basilar membrane in the cochlea freq2mm <- function(freq=NULL, A = 165.4, a = 2.1, length = 35, k = 0.88){ return(log10((freq/A)+k)*length/a)}

need more real-life examples like this to demonstrate audio concepts

with geom_box(), every plot is a box plot

Interesting (although not too surprising) that data viz comprehesion uses two-stage process: 1st fast initial pass based on prior knowledge and assumptions about how graphs should behave, 2nd detailed orientated pass only if suggestion something is misleading. doi.org/10.1007/s106... #AcademicSky

Look, I love these sites & I get how politics works & why they're doing it, but every single one makes exactly the same error universities have been making for years: Research DOES NOT JUST MEAN STEM. Look around. If you think we also don't need social science & humanities research, look harder.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Mentally fixing a word that you missed can lead to missing the next thing the talker says. This is a common problem for people who have hearing loss, but is ignored by audiological testing. Check out our new open-access paper on this topic here! journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/...

When a talker repeats the same vowel sequence 34 times in quick succession, a good phonetician simply can’t let that opportunity pass. I present to you: the definitive acoustic analysis of Ari Melber's pronunciation of "guilty"

Academic mentorship is a skill that has to be practiced intentionally - it doesn't just happen automatically. Auditory friends, come join us in this chat on how to be a good mentor

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you found that two groups of children have different means on X, not that X can distinguish between two groups of children. keep it clear and boring.

Need more plots, all the time

First day of class!