EVALITA is a recent initiative devoted to the evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Processing tools for Italian. In this work, the results of three open source ASR toolkits will be described. CSLU Speech Tools, CSLR SONIC, CMU SPHINX are applied on the EVALITA clean and noisy digits recognition task and this report will describe the complete evaluation methodology. CSLR SONIC has resulted ...

The violation of a classical Cauchy-Schwarz (CS) inequality is identified as an unequivocal signature of spontaneous Hawking radiation in sonic black holes. This violation can be particularly large near the peaks in the radiation spectrum emitted from a resonant boson structure forming a sonic horizon. As a function of the frequency-dependent Hawking radiation intensity, we analyze the degree o...

This paper describes the development of a wearable interface for sound and light. Light can be visually expressive and perhaps stimulating if integrated into the design of a musical interface, adding a visual element of light and shadow to the performative space. GO is an experimental controller for live interactive performance of sound and light, a wearable controller with sensors and switches...

We present a study that explores the affordance evoked by sound and sound-gesture mappings. In order to do this, we make use of a sensor system with minimal form factor in a user study that minimizes cultural association. The present study focuses on understanding how participants describe sounds and gestures produced while playing designed sonic interaction mappings. This approach seeks to mov...

The first three disorders discussed are abnormalities of bone: too little bone in cleidocranial dysplasia caused by mutations in RUNX2; too much bone in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva with overexpression of BMP4; and abnormal bone in McCune-Albright syndrome and fibrous dysplasia caused by mutations in GNAS1. Disorders of the sonic hedgehog signaling network are discussed next, including...

The Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast was established in February 2001. This paper outlines the major developments at the Centre since its purpose built facilities were formally opened in April 2004; it describes the flagship resource of the Centre – the world’s first Sonic Laboratory; it discusses some of the research projects currently in progress and recent composition...

At St. David's Cathedral, structural vibrations produced by a number of Concorde sonic bangs have been measured and compared with the vibration produced by the structures normal environment. The results show that bang produced amplitudes are not very much greater than the environmental vibration amplitudes. It is unlikely therefore that continued exposure of the Cathedral to sonic bangs would r...

This paper is an introduction to the emotional qualities of sound and music, and we suggest that the visual and the aural modalities should be combined in the design of visualizations involving emotional expressions. We therefore propose that visualization design should incorporate sonic interaction design drawing on musicology, cognitive neuroscience of music, and psychology of music, and iden...

MATTIA FRASCA∗, ANDRÉ BERGNER†, JÜRGEN KURTHS‡ and LUIGI FORTUNA∗ ∗Laboratorio sui Sistemi Complessi, Scuola Superiore di Catania, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy †Institute of Physics, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany ‡Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK ), 14473 Potsdam,...

The ‘Cosmos’ model and its application is a dynamic event distribution system, which generates and organizes sonic entities evolving on multiple time scales. Inspired by the stochastic event generation models that were developed by Iannis Xenakis, the Cosmos model proposes additional important aspects such as the self-similarity in the structure and emergent behaviour in the resulting sonic evo...