The hypothesis of this interaction research project is that it can be stimulating for experimental musicians to confront a system which ‘opposes’ their musical style. The ‘contrary motion’ of the title is the name of a MIDI-based realtime musical software agent which uses machine listening to establish the musical context, and thereby chooses its own responses to differentiate its position from...

We present a system that automatically turns the pages of the music score for musicians during a performance. It is based on a new algorithm for following an incoming audio stream in real time and aligning it to a music score (in the form of a synthesized audio file). Precision and robustness of the algorithm are quantified in systematic experiments, and a demonstration using an actual page tur...

This paper analyzes the application of methods developed in automatic speech recognition (ASR) to better understand neural activity measured with electrocorticography (ECoG) during the presentation of speech. ECoG data is collected from temporal cortex in two subjects listening to a matrix sentence test. We investigate the relation of ECoG signals and acoustic speech that has been processed wit...

This study introduces a tool, partial and synchronized caption (PSC), for training second language (L2) listening skill. PSC uses an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to realize word-level alignment between text and speech while it refers to the corpora to effectively select a subset of words for inclusion in the caption. The selection criteria are based on three features contributing t...

To date, little quantitative data regarding hearing aid benefit has been produced in New Zealand. The 38-item Shortened Hearing Aid Performance Inventory (SHAPI) was administered by mail to hearing aid clients aged over 50 years who had been fitted with hearing aids in the previous 2 years. Based on subjects' responses, three items with low applicability were dropped from the analysis. The over...

BACKGROUND The way in which leadership is experienced in different socioeconomic strata is of interest per se, as well as how it relates to employee mental health. METHODS Three waves of SLOSH (Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health, a questionnaire survey on a sample of the Swedish working population) were used, 2006, 2008 and 2010 (n = 5141). The leadership variables were: "Non-...