In this paper, we explore the development and assessment of a virtual reality (VR) system
designed to enhance public speaking and vocal skills among professional and non …

Separate voice part perception has been shown in polyphonic music. However, it remains
unclear whether this segregation of voice parts is specific to polyphony or also occurs in …

The spectral formant structure and periodicity pitch are the major features that determine the
identity of vowels and the characteristics of the speaker. However, very little is known about …

With fast and reliable international transportation, more people with different language
backgrounds can interact now. As a result, the need for communicative agents fluent in …

Binaural pitch fusion, the perceptual integration of dichotically presented stimuli that evoke
different pitches, can be considered a type of simultaneous grouping. Hence, auditory …

We present a virtual reality environment (VRE) dedicated to improving public speaking and
vocal skills. To design our VR system, we first recorded 529 data samples of fifteen students …

The effects of sound segregation cues on the sensitivity to intensity increments were
explored. Listeners indicated whether the second and fourth sounds (harmonic complexes) …

Humans and non-human animals parse the auditory scene into distinct auditory objects or
“streams” by grouping together stimuli with common features and segregating those with …

A fundamental goal of the auditory system is to group stimuli from the auditory environment
into a perceptual unit (ie," stream") or segregate the stimuli into multiple different streams …

Perceptual interactions between pitch and timbre have been demonstrated repeatedly using
various psychoacoustics tasks. Interactions are influenced by a degree of congruency …