General Papers
Interdisciplinary Approaches for Advancing Articulatory Speech Theory and Synthesis | |
Sidney Fels, Bryan Gick |
Acoustical Standards
Update on communication headset noise measurements in the workplace | |
Flora G. Nassrallah, Nicolas N. Ellaham, Christian Giguere, Hilmi R. Dajani |
Standards for Modelling Road Traffic Noise in Western Canada | |
Forest Borch, Mark Bliss |
CSA Z1007: A new management standard from the Canadian Standards Association for the management of hearing loss prevention programs | |
Jeffrey Michael Goldberg, T Kelsall, A Behar, P Malek |
Changing Standards for Building Acoustics Regulation | |
J. David Quirt |
CSA Z107.6 Audiometric Testing for use in Hearing Loss Prevention Programs: A new title for a new edition | |
Sasha Brown, Christian Giguère, Michael Sharpe |
CSA Z107.56 and Safe Use of Music Players | |
Tim Kelsall |
Acoustical Consulting: Noise Control
Laboratory impact and airborne sound attenuation in cross-laminated timber construction using resiliently mounted ceilings and poured concrete toppings. | |
Wilson Byrick |
PREDICTING EXHAUST SOUND POWER LEVELS OF GENERAL PURPOSE BOILERS | |
Robert D Stevens, William J Gastmeier |
Selecting Suitable Noise Control for Mine Return Air Raise Systems | |
Andrew Dobson, William Gastmeier |
Effectiveness of Noise Reducing Asphalt Pavements | |
Scott Penton |
Noise Mitigation of Small PTAC Systems | |
Scott Penton, Lucas Arnold, Nick Walters |
Noise Control for High Plume Exhaust Fans: A Case Study | |
Peter VanDelden, Greg Downey, Matt Downey |
Acoustical Measurements
Acoustical Effects of Wind Screens on Infrasound Measurements | |
Todd Busch, Pearlie Yung, Jeremy Thorbahn, John Swallow |
Development of the Second Generation NRC Acoustic Spectrum Control System for High Intensity Noise Testing | |
Anant Grewal, Yong (Eric) Chen, Shahrukh Alavi, Viresh Wickramasinghe, Brent Lawrie |
Colt C8A2 Carbine Impulsive Noise Auditory Hazard Assessment through Testing In a Reverberant Environment | |
Sebastian Ghinet, Andrew Price, Anant Grewal, Yong Chen, Viresh Wickramasinghe |
Time domain source localization technique based on generalized cross correlation and generalized mean | |
Thomas Padois, Olivier Doutres, Franck Sgard, Alain Berry |
Identifying Localized Noise Sources During Industrial Vehicle Passbys | |
Jordan Michael Reniak |
Architectural Acoustics
Optimizing Ceiling Systems and Lightweight Plenum Barriers to Achieve Ceiling Attenuation Class (CAC) Ratings of 40, 45 and 50 | |
Gary S. Madaras, Andrew E. Heuer |
DL2 Requirements for Speech Intelligibility and Privacy in Rooms | |
Denny Ng, Murray Hodgson |
SCALE-MODEL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT AND OPTIMAL DESIGN OF SOUND ABSORBERS IN AN OPEN-PLAN OFFICE | |
Md Amin Mahmud, Murray Hodgson |
ACOUSTICAL DESIGN FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING | |
Paul Marks |
Objective acoustical quality in healthcare office facilities | |
Murray Hodgson |
Acoustics in Alberta schools - Overview and challenges | |
Philippe Moquin, Ellen Buchan |
Subjective acoustical quality in healthcare office facilities | |
Murray Hodgson |
Exterior Noise Ingress in Greater Vancouver Residential Buildings: Prediction versus Field Measurements | |
Gary Mak, Mark Bliss |
Acoustical properties of homogeneous planar surfaces in room acoustics: A theoretical review | |
Behrooz Yousefzadeh, Murray Hodgson |
Noise Control Issues in a Steel-Framed Institutional Building | |
Clair Wakefield |
Sound Field Diffuseness in Oblique-Shaped Reverberation Rooms with Different Test Configurations | |
Md Mehadi Hasan, Murray Hodgson |
THE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF COMPOSITE FLOATING FLOORS IN BUILDINGS | |
Max De Castro Magalhães |
Acoustical Consulting: Environmental
Considerations regarding an acoustic criterion for wind turbine acceptability | |
William Keith Gregory Palmer |
Monitoring of Road Traffic Sound Levels | |
Bill Gastmeier, Sheeba Paul |
Effects of Traffic Density on Measured Sound Levels – A Case Study | |
Ian Matthew, Anthony Amarra |
Meaningful Measurements to Assess Transformer Noise | |
Henk de Haan, Virgini Senden |
Noise Levels from Heavily Travelled Roads for Use with Environmental Noise Regulations in British Columbia and Alberta | |
Shira Daltrop, Andrew C. Faszer, Victor W. Young |
Comparison between modelled and measured sound levels for a Southern Alberta Wind Farm | |
Henk de Haan, Virgini Senden |
Community Noise Investigation of a "Low Level Thrumming" attributed to the Operation of Mine | |
Andrew Williamson |
Modular Expansion Joint Noise in B.C. | |
Duane Ernest Marriner, Clair Wakefield |
A Review of the BC Wind Power Project Acoustic Assessment Guidelines | |
Brigette Martin, Mark Bliss |
Acoustical verification testing of ground run-up enclosure at Vancouver International Airport | |
Mark Bliss, Mark Cheng, Rachel Min, Ron Reeves, Ryan McMullan |
Comparison of Air Craft Noise Exposure in between NEF Contour Prediction and 24-Hour Measurement Results | |
Eric Gu, Mark Bliss |
Geoacoustic Inversion and Measurement
Advances in Acoustic Monitoring | |
Corey Kinart, Bill Gastmeier |
Gradient Representations in Seabed Geoacoustic Inversion by Bernstein Polynomials | |
Jorge E. Quijano, Stan E. Dosso, Charles W. Holland, Jan Dettmer |
Bayesian Inversion of Time-difference-of-arrival Data to Localize Bowhead whales in the Chukchi Sea | |
Graham A. Warner, Stan E. Dosso, David E. Hannay |
Geoacoustic Inversion of Reflection Data in a Water Tank | |
Junjie (Jason) Shi, Stan Dosso, Dajun Sun |
The Evolution of Environmental Ground Borne Vibration Measurement, Assessment and Reporting Over the Last 50 Years | |
Kathryn Katsiroumpas, Ian Matthew |
The potential of remote real-time noise monitoring | |
Henk de Haan, Virgini Senden |
Hearing Health and Aging
Addressing Social Isolation in Hearing Rehabilitation | |
Marilyn Reed |
Promoting hearing and communication health in long-term residential care through the use of communication apps | |
Jeff Small, Rozanne Wilson, Alex Milhailidis, Diana Cochrane |
Audiologic care for clients with multiple medical comorbidities: Modifications to clinical practice and inclusion of family members and caregivers | |
Kate Dupuis, Ulrike Lemke, Marilyn Reed, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller |
Acoustic factors related to emotional responses to sound | |
Erin Margaret Picou |
Improving communication for persons with dementia | |
Sara Mamo, Samantha J. Mayhew, Matthew McNabney, Esther S. Oh, Frank R. Lin |
Association between sensory loss and social outcomes: A preliminary report | |
Maksim Parfyonov, Paul Mick, Kathy Pichora-Fuller, Walter Wittich |
Indigenous Speech Communication
Articulatory conflict resolution strategies among L1 and L2 SENCOTEN speakers | |
Sonya Bird |
Acoustic characteristics of preaspirated stops in Plains Cree | |
Katherine Schmirler |
Ultrasound overlay videos and their application in Indigenous language learning and revitalization | |
Heather Bliss, Strang Burton, Bryan Gick |
The realisation of coronal obstruents across Hul’q’umi’num’ speakers | |
Sonya Bird, Donna Gerdts, Janet Leonard |
Shifty Vowels: Variation in Dialectal Lowering in Gitksan | |
Kyra Fortier |
Acoustic characteristics of obstruents in Huehuetla Tepehua | |
Rebekka Puderbaugh |
Multisensory and Sensorimotor Integration
Preliminary Findings from Investigations of the Relationship between Hearing and Segmental Orientation during Walking | |
Sin-Tung Lau, Michael Cinelli, Karl Zabjek, Nicolas Nasri Ellaham, Jennifer Campos |
Rethinking multimodal integration: The importance of event unity | |
Michael Schutz |
Quantifying the time-varying relation between speech production and postural control at different levels of vocal effort | |
Robert Fuhrman, Adriano Vilela-Barbosa, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson |
Auditory, tactile and bimodal synchronization to the beat: a test of the auditory-motor enhancement hypothesis | |
Frank A. Russo, Paolo Ammirante, Aniruddh D. Patel |
Using Spatialized Sound to Enhance Self-Motion Perception in Virtual Environments and Beyond: Auditory and Multi-Modal Contributions | |
Bernhard E. Riecke |
Ocean and Marine-Mammal Acoustics
Efficient estimation of range-dependent seabed properties from large data volumes of a towed source and receiver-array system | |
Jan Dettmer, Jorge E Quijano, Stan E Dosso, Charles W Holland, Eric Mandolesi |
Passive acoustic localization and density estimation of fin whales using a single hydrophone | |
Brendan P. Rideout |
Automatic Detection and Visualization of Marine Mammal Sounds in British-Columbia, Canada. | |
Xavier Mouy, Pierre-Alain Mouy, David Hannay |
Interaction between learned and naturally selected features in the design of killer whale calls and their functions | |
Harald Yurk |
Blind channel estimation of underwater acoustic waveguide impulse responses using marine mammal vocalizations | |
Brendan P. Rideout, Eva-Marie Nosal, Anders Høst-Madsen |
An automated real-time vessel sound measurement system for calculating monopole source levels using a modified version of ANSI/ASA S12.64-2009 | |
David Edward Hannay, Xavier Mouy, Zizheng Li |
Occupational Noise and Hearing Protection
Custom molded silicon earplugs: effect of material properties on acoustic attenuation and mechanical skin contact | |
Guilhem Viallet, Jérémie Voix |
Pilot study on individual dose-response relationship evaluated through otoacoustic emission measurements in controlled noise exposure: influence of circadian rhythm | |
Vincent Nadon, Annelies Bockstael, Dick Botteldooren, Jérémie Voix |
Using CSA Standard Z107.56 to Investigate Noise Exposure of Call Center Employees | |
Shira Daltrop, Ryan Bessey |
Effect of ear canal occlusion on loudness perception | |
Fabien Bonnet, Jérémie Voix, Hugues Nélisse |
Ear canal deformations by various earplugs: An in situ investigation using MRI | |
Simon Benacchio, Arthur Varoquaux, Eric Wagnac, Olivier Doutres, Virginie Callot, David Bendahan, Franck Sgard |
Investigation of Aircrew Noise Exposure Onboard the NRC Dassault Falcon Aircraft Through Flight Testing | |
Andrew Price, Sebastian Ghinet, Viresh Wickramasinghe |
Speech Acquisition
Audio-Aerotactile Integration in Infant Speech Perception | |
Megan Keough, Padmapriya Kandhadai, Janet F Werker, Bryan Gick |
Does training to perceive L2 English vowels in one phonetic context transfer to other phonetic contexts? | |
Ron I Thomson |
Perceptual Learning of speech sounds: A bias for 'sipper' over 'zipper'? | |
Molly Babel, Zoe Lawler, Carolyn Norton |
Does swallowing bootstrap speech learning? | |
Connor Mayer, Francois Roewer-Despres, Ian Stavness, Bryan Gick |
Breathing position and the perception of consonants | |
Henny Yeung, Mark Scott, Lionel Granjon |
Infants' use of temporal and phonetic information in the encoding of audiovisual speech | |
D. Kyle Danielson, Cassie Tam, Padmapriya Kandhadai, Janet F. Werker |
Sustainable Building Acoustics
Sustainability in Acoustic Design | |
Forest Borch, Brigette Martin |
Achieving Better Sound Insulation of CLT Partitions | |
Ivan Sabourin, Christoph Hoeller, Berndt Zeitler |
Sound Absorption and Scattering Properties of Living walls: Applications to Room Acoustics | |
Maureen Connelly, Daver Bolbolan, Mahsa Akbarnejad, Sepideh Daneshpanah |
Acoustical Investigation of Laneway House Facades | |
Rosa Lin, Maureen Connelly |
Increasing Sound Insulation of Window with Add-on Systems & Various Insulating Glass Unit Configurations | |
Joyce Mak, Maureen Connelly |
Investigation of Airflow and Sound Transmission through Vented-Acoustical Panels for Natural Ventilation | |
James Higgins, Vivek Shankar, Murray Hodgson |
Sounds of Emotion
Emotional communication in music: Implications for understanding links between between speech and music | |
Michael Schutz |
Skin conductance responses to emotional speech in hearing-impaired and hearing-aided listeners | |
Gabriel A Nespoli, Gurjit Singh, Frank A Russo |
Perception of Emotion in Music by Hearing-Impaired and Hearing-Aided Listeners | |
Frank A. Russo, Domenica Fanelli |
Perception of emotional speech by listeners with hearing aids | |
Huiwen Goy, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Gurjit Singh, Frank A. Russo |
There’s something about that groove: Rhythm improves detection of audio but not vibrotactile asynchronies | |
Andrew P. Lauzon, Frank A. Russo, Laurence R. Harris |
Environmental Sound and its Relation to Human Emotion | |
Barry Truax |
Speech Production
Affricate Contrasts in Eastern Oromo | |
Maida Percival |
Individual Variations and Gradience in English Palatalization | |
Jae-Hyun Sung |
Dental overjet, articulatory compensation and acoustics of speech | |
Lauretta Cheng, Tiffany Doe, Derek Lew, Melissa Henderson, Murray Schellenberg, Bryan Gick |
(Canadian) Raise your vowels in song | |
Murray Schellenberg, Avery Ozburn |
Schlieren study of external airflow during the production of nasal and oral vowels in French | |
Jeffrey Rowell, Masaki Noguchi, B. May Bernhardt, Anthony Herdman, Bryan Gick, Murray Schellenberg |
Japanese EFL Learners’ production of pronouns and articles in English: Evidence for L2 Prosodic Structures | |
Noriko Yamane, Noriko Yoshimura, Atsushi Fujimori |
Speech Testing
Laboratory assessment of daily-life speech understanding | |
Sridhar Kalluri, Jing Xia, Ervin Hafter |
Intelligibility, response time and listening efficiency of native and non-native listeners in various acoustical conditions | |
Alice V Lam, Murray Hodgson |
What Do Forced Alignment Likelihood Scores Tell Us About the Aligned Speech? | |
Ayushi Mrigen, Daniel Brenner, Benjamin V. Tucker |
Intelligibility of older talkers on the NU6 test | |
Huiwen Goy, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Pascal van Lieshout |
A software platform to administer the Canadian Digit Triplet Test | |
Nicolas Ellaham, Christian Giguère, Josée Lagacé, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller |
An ecological approach to assess auditory perception. | |
François Bergeron, Aurore Berland, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Christophe Vincent, Annie Giasson, Danielle Cloutier, Genevieve Tremblay, Mathieu Hotton, Kevin Leung Kam, Jean-Luc Puel, Jean-Charles Ceccato, Bastien Bouchard |
Speech auditory brainstem responses and words-in-noise recognition scores: is there a link? | |
Josée Lagacé, Amineh Koravand, Jordon Thompson, Suzanne Lteif |
Discrimination of aspiration noise in breathy vowels | |
Ilse Labuschagne, Valter Ciocca |
Effects of modality and linguistic materials on memory | |
Jenna Pattison, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Sherri L. Smith |
Listening to speech in noise : Evaluation and training | |
Benoît Jutras, Mojgan Owliaey, Lyne Lafontaine, Alexis Pinsonnault-Skvarenina, Jean-Pierre Gagné |
Vibroacoustics
Quantification of footstep noise transmission in the interior of an apartment building | |
Max De Castro Magalhães |
A data processing method for noise measurements of snowmobiles and their sub-systems on test bench | |
Jason Méjane, Raymond Panneton, Alain Desrochers, Rémy Oddo |
Comparison of two methods of transfer path analysis applied to snowmobile for noise source identification | PDF PDF |
Nassardin Nassar Guenfoud, Olivier Robin, Raymond Panneton, Alain Desrochers, Walid Belgacem |
Understanding sources and sound radiation of a snowmobile track | |
Stéphane Beuvelet, Raymond Panneton, Alain Desrochers, Remy Oddo |
OPTIMIZATION STUDY AND PANEL PARAMETER STUDY FOR NOISE RADIATION REDUCTION OF AN AIRCRAFT PANEL EXCITED BY TURBULENT FLOW | |
Steven Albert James Sonnenberg, Joana Rocha |
LABORATORY AND FIELD MEASUREMENTS OF NAIL GUNS’ NOISE EMISSION | |
Marc-André Gaudreau, Frédéric Laville, Pierre Marcotte, Jérôme Boutin |
Other Topics and Discussion
The lasso and elastic-net algorithms for predictive sound quality models using large pool of predictive metrics and factors | |
Abdelghani Benghanem, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, Lévy Leblanc, Alain Berry |
EFFECT OF VARIABILITY IN MICRO-GEOMETRY OF POLYURETHANE FOAMS ON THE DOUBLE WALL TRANSMISSION LOSS | |
Mohammad Sadegh Gholami, Olivier Doutres, Noureddine Atalla |
The Case for a Canadian Trade Association for Acoustic Consulting Companies | |
Eric de Santis, Steve Meszaros |
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