Part4 students received Acoustical Society of NZ award

The following members of the CAL received the Acoustical Society of New Zealand Award for their Part4 project presentation. Congrats to all. Jemima Prins Project title: Design of audio recording unit for localising kiwi birds from their calls Dylan Townsend Thomas...

New journal papers

The following two journal papers authored by the members of the CAL with collaborators are published recently. C.T.J. Hui, M. Kingan, Y. Hioka, G. Schmid, G. Dodd, K.N. Dirks,S. Edlin, S. Mascarenhas, and Y.M. Shim. Quantification of the psychoacoustic effect of noise...

Presentation at Interspeech 2021

We had a presentation at Interspeech 2021 held online this week. Our PhD student Nicholas Eng talked about his recent study that investigated the performance of speech enhancement techniques for synthesised speech titled: “Comparing speech enhancement techniques...

CAL welcomed a new member

The CAL welcomed a new PhD student Clara Zhang who is studying how we could help non-native listeners to understand speech under adverse acoustic environments under the supervision of Dr Yusuke Hioka and Associate Professor Catherine Watson. Welcome Clara!

Presentation at Internoise 2021

We had the following presentations at Internoise 2021 held online this week. Y. Hioka, M. Kingan, and G. Dodd. Learning effect of active-learning coursework in engineering acoustics course. presentation video recording link Y. Li, B. Yen, andY. Hioka. Performance...

Journal paper published

We have a journal paper published from Applied Acoustics authored by the members of the CAL (Justine Hui and Yusuke Hioka) with our collaborators. The paper studies a new framework for speech masking systems. The link to the paper is here.

Winter graduation 2021

On 1 June 2021 the university held the winter graduation where the following current and past CAL members graduated. Congratulations to all for their achievement. Bachelor of Engineering with Honours Charlene Lo Yonghui Tao Luke...

Journal paper published

Yusuke Hioka published a journal paper from the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America co-authored by Dr Michael Kingan and Dr George Dodd, who are colleagues in the Acoustics Research Centre. The paper studies the learning effect of the assignment that the team...