Re: [AUDITORY] Looking for unusual noises

[Valeriy Shafiro <firosha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stuart,

I also don't have exactly what you are looking for but might have something close.  Brian Gygi and I used recordings of natural auditory scene in this study 

Gygi B, Shafiro V. The incongruency advantage for environmental sounds presented in natural auditory scenes. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2011 Apr;37(2):551-65. doi: 10.1037/a0020671. PMID: 21355664; PMCID: PMC3071432. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071432/ 

Appendix A has a brief description of the scenes.  If these look appealing I can try to dig out the sound files.  One of them (called 'factory') in the appendix I believe was from a bottling plant.

Valeriy

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 3:21 AM Stuart Rosen <uclytsr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anyone have a copy of:

Vestergaard, M. 1998 . “The Eriksholm CD 01: Speech signals in various acoustical environments,” Report No. 050-08-01, Oticon Research Centre Eriksholm, Snekkersten.

they could share. TBH, I'm more interested in the CD itself as it has a selection of noises (cafeteria noise, car interior noise, and noise from a bottling hall) that would be interesting to use for some speech-in-noise studies we are planning. These noises were mentioned in:

Kjems, U., Boldt, J. B., Pedersen, M. S., Lunner, T., & Wang, D. L. (2009). Role of mask pattern in intelligibility of ideal binary-masked noisy speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(3), 1415-1426. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3179673

I am also pretty sure I have seen the noise from a bottling hall being used in other studies from DTU.

Thanks for any help!

Yours - Stuart

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