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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Taylor Swift changed her accent when living in different cities. Miski Mohamed and I analyzed the acoustics of her vowel articulation, showing key features of Southern accent during Taylor’s time in Nashville, and lowered voice pitch during her time in New York City pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

cartoon showing a speech sound being used for acoustic analysis to show changes in vowel articulation in different cities

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Using Ant-Man’s voice as a lesson on voice acoustics and vocal tract length www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0qx...

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Want to vocode speech? You can use our paper and code! This is a technique used to control spectral resolution and other factors that are important for understanding cochlear implants github.com/ListenLab/Vo... pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

an illustration of speech displayed as a waveform (top) and a spectrogram (bottom). The original speech is on the left, and it is transformed into three different kinds of vocoded speech to the right (sinewave carriers, noise-band carriers, and harmonic-complex carriers)

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Preparing to teach phonetics / acoustics in the fall? Here are some class videos that might be helpful for you! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Intro to Speech Acoustics - YouTube

A series of videos on speech acoustics, for students in speech & hearing sciences, linguistics, psychology, etc.

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

use R to pinpoint where a sound frequency falls on the basilar membrane in the cochlea freq2mm <- function(freq=NULL, A = 165.4, a = 2.1, length = 35, k = 0.88){ return(log10((freq/A)+k)*length/a)}

a graph showing sound frequency log-scaled on the x axis ranging from 31 to 16000, and basilar membrane position (in terms of millimeter distance from the apex) on the y axis, ranging from 0 to 32

a graph showing sound frequency linearly-scaled on the x axis ranging from 31 to 16000, and basilar membrane position (in terms of millimeter distance from the apex) on the y axis, ranging from 0 to 32

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

need more real-life examples like this to demonstrate audio concepts

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

with geom_box(), every plot is a box plot

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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Interesting (although not too surprising) that data viz comprehesion uses two-stage process: 1st fast initial pass based on prior knowledge and assumptions about how graphs should behave, 2nd detailed orientated pass only if suggestion something is misleading. doi.org/10.1007/s106... #AcademicSky

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Look, I love these sites & I get how politics works & why they're doing it, but every single one makes exactly the same error universities have been making for years: Research DOES NOT JUST MEAN STEM. Look around. If you think we also don't need social science & humanities research, look harder.

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Mentally fixing a word that you missed can lead to missing the next thing the talker says. This is a common problem for people who have hearing loss, but is ignored by audiological testing. Check out our new open-access paper on this topic here! journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/...

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

When a talker repeats the same vowel sequence 34 times in quick succession, a good phonetician simply can’t let that opportunity pass. I present to you: the definitive acoustic analysis of Ari Melber's pronunciation of "guilty"

chart showing measurements of fundamental frequency (pitch) and formant values for 34 iterations of the word "guilty" spoken by Ari Melber when reading the verdict

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Academic mentorship is a skill that has to be practiced intentionally - it doesn't just happen automatically. Auditory friends, come join us in this chat on how to be a good mentor

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Matthew Winn @matthewwinn.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Need plot Need bike plot Need bike plots Need to build bike plots line by line

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 21/03/2024

you found that two groups of children have different means on X, not that X can distinguish between two groups of children. keep it clear and boring.

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