AUDITORY list home page

Welcome to the web site of the AUDITORY list, which provides information about and related to the AUDITORY list, an email list for the discussion of organizational aspects of auditory perception. The list was created in 1992 by Professor Albert S Bregman of the McGill University Department of Psychology. It is currently maintained by Dan Ellis, who also runs this web site.

On this page: Notices - Joining/leaving AUDITORY - AUDITORY archives - Local information - Seminars - Journal contents - Source code - Other sites - Links to links

This section contains messages that I have decided to distribute through the web rather than sending to the AUDITORY list. I have refrained from posting them because of their size or tangential relevance. I hope this is an appropriate alternative.

• 2020-12-31: Moved to a new linode server.

• 2001-04-30: This site has moved to a new address, www.auditory.org.

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Messages to the list since its creation in 1992.

• A page discussing Portable Audio Recorders that might be of interest to researchers
• Information on auditory demonstrations available as CDs

• Archives of talk announcements for the Stanford Hearing Seminar, organized by Malcolm Slaney. (The original archive at UCSC appears to have been taken offline, sadly.)

• The UC Berkeley Ear Club, hosted by the UCB Auditory Perception Lab.

• Current and recent talks at the Boston University Hearing Research Seminar series, hosted by the BU Hearing Research Center.

• The Auditory Physiology Seminar Series at the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories in Boston.

I'm afraid I haven't been keeping all of these up to date, so coverage is partial at best. If anyone knows better sources for this data, please let me know.

• Indexes to some recent ASA meetings including all the abstracts since the 124th meeting (1992). (The ASA provide an excellent searchable index to the most recent meeting).

• The Acoustical Society also offers Tables of contents for JASA for 1995 (vol 97) onward.

• John Krantz's list of psychologically-related electronic journals and periodicals etc.

• The journal Music Perception has its own web site, including abstracts.

• The Journal of New Music Research provides abstracts for the journal issues, pictures and sound examples.

• Malcolm Slaney had produced various code examples including his very useful Auditory Toolbox, including various signal transforms and representations.

• John Culling has made available PipeWave, his package of signal processing and auditory modelling modules that can be connected via Unix pipes.

• The excellent DSAM (formerly LUTEar) auditory modelling source code is available from its source, the Hearing Research Laboratory at the University of Essex (formerly at Loughborough).

• Roy Patterson's group at the CNBH in Cambridge, UK, has made available a version of their Auditory Image Model spanning the gammatone front-end to the strobed image output.

• Improved code for reading audio files in WAV and .AU format into MATLAB, with thanks to François Caron. (MEX source for reading the Audio Interchange File Format is here under the name of SoundMex4.1. Choose between Mac and Unix versions (compilable on SGI/DEC/Alpha/Sun)). (A version of this latter package for Matlab 5 and which handles a wide range of soundfile formats is available as SoundMex5 (for Unix)).

• There's a very good site explaining different types of portable recorder at the UCL Phonetics site.

• Jont Allen has set up a site, auditorymodels.org to host several discussion lists dealing with models of ear function and cochlear mechanics.

• The site of the Parmly Hearing Institute contains some interesting demonstrations and discussions.

• The Acoustical Society of America has its own web site now, which includes introduction to the society and various other topics in acoustics.

• The Association for Research in Otolaryngology has an attractive and useful web site, including abstracts from their meetings and a member index.

• A beautifully-organized web presentation on the problem of sound localization research has been put together by Dick Duda, including as clear and succinct a definition of the problem of auditory scene analysis as you will find anywhere.

• Be entertained and edified by the polished SineWave Speech page at Haskin's lab - hear for yourself speech without traditional speech cues.

I'm afraid this is a meta-link-list. Rather than compiling my own comprehensive list of auditory-related sites, here are some pointers to other peoples. I wirry that this may be a degenerate activity - list of links to other people's lists of links, but I've tried to be selective for pages with some description and/or very wide coverage.

• The SOCRATES Thematic Network in Phonetics and Speech Communication has a project in Computer-Aided Learning, which has resulted in a well-edited Inventory of Internet Resources including useful annotated indexes of linguistic data, speech processing tools, etc.

• There is a very comprehensive index of WWW Information for Speech/Acoustics Research from the lab of Prof. Shikano at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST).

• A list of auditory links from the Darmstadt Auditory Research Group in Germany. Includes a couple of lines describing the sites of each of about 50 research groups.

Please send me your suggestions of other things to do on this page.