Auditory Lab at Carnegie Mellon University

02/07/2025

‪Call for papers! 📯
If you conduct auditory/acoustic research on the ability to use sound to represent, understand, manipulate, or navigate the surrounding environment, emphasizing ecologically relevant natural sounds and tasks, please send it to Ecological Perspectives on Hearing, a special issue in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America which I'm co-guest editing.

08/29/2024

I'm looking forward to this great conference! Submissions due Sept 15.

The 23nd annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting (APCAM 2024) will occur on Thursday, November 21, 2024. We would like to invite you to contribute your work on any aspect of auditory science to APCAM 2024, which will occur in New York City, USA at the same venue as and immediately....

08/27/2024

Would you like to discriminate between real and fake everyday sounds? Today, at , Prof. Mathieu Lagrange presented a system that accurately discriminates a set of fake (computer-generated) everyday sounds from non-fake sounds by using CLAP audio embeddings. In addition, he presented data from humans that reveal some of their strategies for detecting fakes. Congratulations to the primary authors of our collaborative project, graduate students Hafsa OUAJDI and Oussama Hadder, on “Detection of Deepfake Environmental Audio,” by H Ouajdi, H Oussama, M Tailleur, M Lagrange, LM Heller.https://eurasip.org/Proceedings/Eusipco/Eusipco2024/pdfs/0000056.pdf

08/26/2024

Congratulations to Dr. Hassan Azad from U. of Florida on giving a great presentation today about the effects of traffic noise on school children at Internoise 2024! https://internoise2024.org He's first author on our conference paper, ASSESSMENT OF ANNOYANCE FROM TRAFFIC NOISE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE A SCHOOL, H. Azad , A. Shojae Kol Kachi , R. Ly , S. Naseer , L. M. Heller.

04/01/2024

📣 Want to break the silence of AI-generated videos? Generate sound scenes from text prompts in our new challenge, Task 7 of DCASE 2024: “Sound Scene Synthesis.” Challenge launches today, deadline is June15th.

This task expands the scope from Foley sound to general sound scenes and aims at adding further controllability with natural language prompts in the form of text prompts. If you are interested in the task, you can join us on the dedicated slack channel. Description Environmental Sound Scene Synthesi...

02/21/2024

Did you know that louder sounds are easier to recognize, but more unpleasant? If so, is it valid to "equalize" sound levels in the lab when asking questions about sound recognition and sound pleasantness in everyday life? See our paper to find out.

Published today by our lab:

Ecological Sound Loudness in Environmental Sound Representations.

Oszczapinska, U., Heller, L.M., Jang, S., and Nance, B. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters 4(2), 024401 (2024).

Research supported by REAM Misophonia Research Fund.

Listeners recognizing environmental sounds must contend with variations in level due to the source level and the environment. Nonetheless, variations in level d

02/20/2024

Enjoyed speaking at SAMBA, Science of Art, Music and Brain Activity, to folks at Arizona State University.

02/20/2024

I heard that Michael Harris gave an excellent presentation in Australia! Excited to share our collaborative project which has been going on for more than a year.
"Assessment of environmental sound perception among listeners with hearing loss and cochlear implants." Harris, M.S., Anwer, S., Luzum, N., Shafiro, V., Heller, L.M.
Acoustical Society of America, Sydney, December 4, 2023.

11/20/2023

was a success! APCAM hosted a fascinating keynote lecture by Indre Viskontas (U. of San Francisco) on the Impact of Music on Health, along with a series of excellent talks and posters about auditory perception, cognition, and action. Apcam

11/14/2023

This Thursday, we will be presenting some research on auditory-visual interactions in sound source assignment, misophonia, and sound pleasantness - at the 22nd annual Auditory Perception, Action and Cognition Meeting (Apcam) in San Francisco CA. . www.apcsociety.com https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14343309/