Listening for Meaning

Listening for sound, listening for meaning: Task effects on prosodic transcription

The perception of prosodic structure (phrasal prominences and boundaries) may depend in part on acoustic cues in the speech signal and in part on utterance meaning as related to syntactic structure and discourse context. In this study we ask if listeners are able to differentially weigh acoustic and meaningbased cues to prosody. We test naïve subjects’ transcription of prominences and boundarie...

Analysis of Listening-Oriented Dialogue for Building Listening Agents

Our aim is to build listening agents that can attentively listen to the user and satisfy his/her desire to speak and have himself/herself heard. This paper investigates the characteristics of such listening-oriented dialogues so that such a listening process can be achieved by automated dialogue systems. We collected both listening-oriented dialogues and casual conversation, and analyzed them b...

Listening to the Mind Listening

The following explains what mappings have been chosen for a sonification of several data channels from set containing a recording of the neural activity of a person listening to a piece of music. This piece, and also the sonification, is exactly 300 seconds long. My aim is to provide a sonification/composition that can be created in (near) real-time and takes its title literally. This is done b...

Listening for Grace.

Listening in on the listening brain

www.physicstoday.org An article published in the journal Brain some 40 years ago forever changed the world of hearing assessment.1 Don Jewett and John Williston reported that neural firing recorded from the human scalp with electroencephalogram electrodes could determine whether a sound was heard. The measured electrical impulses originated in the midbrain, a part of the auditory brainstem, and...