Congratulations to Justine for receiving best paper award

Congratulations to Justine Hui who received the Best Paper Award from the Acoustical Society of Japan for her recent publication titled “Elderly listeners’ identification of Japanese long vowel pair `obasan’ and `obaasan’ using pitch and duration” (link to...

CAL welcomed new members

At the start of the new academic year, the CAL welcomed the following new students to the team. PhD students: Yonghui Tao: “Edge AI for Bird Call Classification in Remote and Isolated Environments” Masters students: Charlene Lo: “Designing real-time...

CAL summer excursion 2021

The CAL had the summer excursion in Long Bay Regional Park. We explored the coastal track to find some nice beaches and a stunning view then had a picnic after the walk. Photo credit: Yameizhen Li

Presentation at APSIPA ASC 2020

We had a presentation at APSIPA ASC 2020 held online this week. Our PhD student Benjamin Yen talked about his recent study on speech enhancement using UAVs titled: “SOURCE ENHANCEMENT FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE RECORDING USING MULTI-SENSORY INFORMATION”....

ARC excursion

The CAL members joined the Christmas excursion organised by the Acoustics Research Centre. This year we spent an early summer afternoon at Auckland Bowling Club next to the campus. For most of us it was first time to play lawn bowling which was a quite tricky...

Seminar by Yusuke Hioka

On Friday 20 November 2020, Yusuke Hioka presented a talk titled “Speech intelligibility in noise with varying spatial acoustics under Ambisonics-based sound reproduction system” in the postgraduate student seminar organised by IEEE...

Journal paper published

We have a journal paper published from Applied Acoustics authored by the current and past members of the CAL (Eugena Au, Shirley Xiao, Justine Hui and Yusuke Hioka) with our collaborators. The paper studies speech intelligibility under Ambisonics-based sound...

Spring graduation

After several disruptions by the Covid lockdowns this year, on 4 November 2020 the university held the spring graduation where the following past CAL members graduated. Congratulations to all for their achievement. Master of Engineering Chenhui Jiang Bachelor of...

Participants needed for speech survey!

We are looking for participants to help us with our speech survey for our research topic: Effect of noise and room acoustics on speech intelligibility Location: Anechoic chamber, Acoustics Research Centre, University of Auckland Duration: 45-55 minutes (with 5 minutes...