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Re: [AUDITORY] Teaching Signals & System for Speech & Hearing

Dear Stuart (et al.),

I didn't understand exactly what software you are looking for, but if you want your students to play with classic psychoacoustical tests in a matlab environment I recommend PSYCHOACOUSTICS, the toolbox we wrote a few years ago. The toolbox includes ready-to-use experiments but also functions for synthesizing sounds and functions for running threshold estimation experiments with adaptive procedures (maximum likelihood, PEST, classic staircase).
The relevant information is here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BRM.41.1.20
The webpage to download the lot is here:
https://dpg.unipd.it/en/mlp

In addition, we recently moved PSYCHOACOUSTICS online. The online version has (of course) less flexibility and experiments but the student does not require any installation or proprietary software and the tool can be used even with a mobile phone. NB: the toolbox is currently under review in "Behavior Research Methods". 

Here the link to the toolbox:
http://psychoacoustics.dpg.psy.unipd.it/sito/index.php

Here is the link to the paper companion of the toolbox;
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/z7ke4/

Of course, you should warn your students that psychoacoustics experiments can give addiction :-)

All the best from a still-too-hot-to-be-October Italy,
m

On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 at 11:49, Stuart Rosen <uclytsr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am going to be teaching a Master's level course about Signals & System for Speech & Hearing next year for mostly linguistics students. I'm planning to use the textbook I wrote with Peter Howell of the same name, and I was curious to see how others who have taught something like this handled the material, perhaps as part of a course in acoustic phonetics.

I taught a similar course for about 10 years to 1st year UGs in Audiology, but that was some time ago, and I think it would be important for students to get some practical experience of employing the relevant concepts, probably using Matlab. I wondered whether any of you had done this as well, or used some other software, whether or not you used my book.

I'd be grateful if anyone had any relevant teaching materials to share (including exercises) concerning this kind of topic.

Thanks so much!

Yours - Stuart Rosen

Prof Stuart Rosen, PhD
Professor of Speech & Hearing Science
UCL Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences