ANGUS

ANGUS is a real-time voice transformation tool able to simulate cues of arousal/roughness on arbitrary voice signals with a high degree of realism.

Authors:  Marco Liuni,  Luc Ardaillon
Updated:  2018-03-07
Source:  http://cream.ircam.fr/?p=787
Keywords:  language,  voice,  vocal-tract,  English

Tool for the Automatic Analysis of Lexical Sophistication

TAALES is a tool that measures over 400 classic and new indices of lexical sophistication, and includes indices related to a wide range of sub-constructs.

Authors:  Kristopher Kyle,  Scott Crossley,  Cynthia Berger
Updated:  2018-02-08
Source:  https://www.linguisticanalysistools.org/taales.html
Keywords:  language,  lexicon,  communication,  English

Time Invariant String Kernel Model

TISK is the Time Invariant String Model of (human) spoken word recognition.

Authors:  Heejo You,  Thomas Hannagan,  James Magnuson
Updated:  2017-12-15
Source:  https://github.com/maglab-uconn/TISK1.0
Keywords:  word-recognition,  phonetics,  python,  English

Inharmonic Pitch perception

Pitch-related music and speech tasks using conventional harmonic sounds and inharmonic sounds whose frequencies lack a common F0.

Authors:  Malinda J. McPherson & Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2017-12-11
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/Diversity_In_Pitch_Perception.html
Keywords:  pitch,  frequency,  music,  speech

The Box Task

The Box Task is a paradigm for the computerized assessment of visuospatial working memory.

Authors:  Roy P. C. Kessels & Albert Postma
Updated:  2017-09-15
Source:  https://roykessels.nl/tests-and-software/box-task
Keywords:  working-memory,  psychology,  experiment,  English,  Dutch

Reverberation

A large-scale statistical analysis of real-world acoustics, revealing strong regularities of reverberation in natural scenes.

Authors:  James Traer & Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2016-11-29
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/Reverb/ReverbSummary.html
Keywords:  sound,  audition,  periphery

MouseTracker

MouseTracker is a freely available, user-friendly software package that allows researchers to record and analyze hand movements traveling toward potential responses on the screen (via the x, y coordinates of the computer mouse).

Authors:  Jon Freeman & Nalini Ambady
Updated:  2016-09-29
Source:  http://www.mousetracker.org/
Keywords:  software,  cognition,  psychology,  experiment

The TimeStudio Project

The TimeStudio Project is dedicated to the behavioral and brain sciences and is a completely free scientific workflow tool. TimeStudio allow researchers to quickly build a sequence of analysis steps by using a modular plugin structure.

Authors:  Pär Nyström,  Terje Falck-Ytter,  Gustaf Gredebäck
Updated:  2016-09-29
Source:  http://timestudioproject.com/
Keywords:  psychology,  experiment,  MATLAB,  neuroscience,  database

Similarity Neighborhood Calculator

A web-based calculator to compute phonological similarity neighborhoods (including neighborhood density and neighborhood frequency).

Authors:  Michael Vitevitch
Updated:  2016-09-29
Source:  https://calculator.ku.edu/density/about
Keywords:  neighborhood-density,  phonological-neighbors,  phonetics,  psychology,  Arabic,  English,  Spanish

Natural Sounds Stimulus Set

The sound set includes 165 natural sounds, each 2-seconds in duration. The sounds were intended to include many of the sounds people commonly hear in their daily life.

Authors:  Sam Norman-Haignere,  Nancy G. Kanwisher,  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2015-11-29
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/svnh/Natural-Sound/Stimuli.html
Keywords:  speech,  music,  stimuli,  frequency,  German,  French,  Italian,  Russian,  Hindi,  Chinese

Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device

DAVID (Da Amazing Voice Inflection Device) is a free, real-time voice transformation tool able to “colour” any voice recording with an emotion that wasn’t intended by its speaker.

Authors:  Marco Liuni,  Petter Johansson,  Lars Hall,  Rodrigo Segnini,  Katsumi Watanabe,  Daniel Richardson
Updated:  2015-09-21
Source:  http://cream.ircam.fr/?p=44
Keywords:  language,  emotion,  psychology,  neuroscience,  French,  English,  Swedish,  Japanese

Attentive Tracking of Sound Sources

Humans track sound sources through feature space with a movable focus of attention. Attentive tracking aids segregation of similar sound sources.

Authors:  Kevin J.P. Woods & Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2015-08-31
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/attentive_tracking/index.html
Keywords:  sound-source,  speech,  audition

The Maryland Tongue Analysis Package

The Maryland Tongue Analysis Package (MTAP), containing EdgeTrak and Surfaces, was developed by the Vocal Tract Visualization Laboratory for use with ultrasound images of the tongue.

Authors:  The Vocal Tract Vizualization Laboratory
Updated:  2013-07-01
Source:  https://www.dental.umaryland.edu/speech/software/
Keywords:  tongue,  palate,  ultrasound,  diagrams,  English

Auditory Textures

Texture properties could be captured by summary statistics that are time-averages of acoustic measurements. We have explored the hypothesis that the auditory system represents textures in this way, with statistics of the measurements made in the peripheral auditory system.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott & Eero P. Simoncelli
Updated:  2013-02-24
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/texture_examples/index.html
Keywords:  audition,  sound,  perception

Source Repetition Stimuli

We used a simple generative model to synthesize novel sounds with naturalistic properties. We found that such sounds could be segregated and identified if they occurred more than once across different mixtures, even when the same sounds were impossible to segregate in single mixtures.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott,  David Wrobleski,  Andrew J. Oxenham
Updated:  2011-01-18
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/source_repetition/index.html
Keywords:  speech,  audition,  sound-sources,  acoustics,  English

Music Scrambling

Example stimuli of music scrambled by pitch, rhythm, and both.

Authors:  Sam Norman-Haignere,  Nancy Kanwisher,  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2010-12-31
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/music_scrambling/index.html
Keywords:  pitch,  harmonics,  frequency,  audition

Consonance

A study into the underlying mechanisms of consonance.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott,  Andriana J. Lehr,  Andrew J. Oxenham
Updated:  2010-06-08
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/consonance_examples/index.html
Keywords:  frequency,  harmony,  acoustics

Cocktail Party Problem

The cocktail party problem is the task of hearing a sound of interest, often a speech signal, in a complex auditory setting.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott
Updated:  2009-09-29
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/cocktail_examples/index.html
Keywords:  audition,  speech,  noise,  frequency,  English

Sound Contour Demos

A study of relative pitch - the relationships between the pitch of successive sounds - to determine whether properties of relative pitch would generalize to other auditory dimensions.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott,  Andriana J.,  Andrew J. Oxenham
Updated:  2008-05-09
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/sound_contour_demos/sound_contour_demos.html
Keywords:  frequency,  pitch,  harmony,  audition

Spectral Completion of Paritally Masked Sounds

The auditory system uses the audible portions of an object's spectrum to infer the portions that are likely to have been masked, and that are thus not veridically present in the input to the auditory system.

Authors:  Josh H. McDermott & Andrew J. Oxenham
Updated:  2008-02-15
Source:  http://mcdermottlab.mit.edu/spec_comp_demos/spec_comp_page1.html
Keywords:  audition,  sound-sources,  masking,  perception