Léo Varnet @leovarnet@qoto.org

Cherry on the cake, all experiments are fully reproducible and all analyses entirely replicable using our home-made toolbox fastACI https://github.com/aosses-tue/fastACI, and the data is openly available on #Zenodo https://zenodo.org/record/7865424 #OpenScience #OpenData #OpenAccess (6/6)

For the French speakers here, a little demo of the effect. By modifying the prosody of a sentence we can radically change its meaning. http://dbao.leo-varnet.fr/demo-cest-lamie-cest-la-mie/ (5/X)

Oops there seems to be a problem with the link... here'sthe correct one: https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/article/3/9/095205/2912705/Prosodic-cues-to-word-boundaries-in-a-segmentation

Sorry, wrong identifier... @AcousticalSocietyofAmerica

...we were able to measure the typical prosody interpreted as "c'est l'ami" vs. the one interpreted as "c'est la mie". This is our main result. In a nutshell, the fundamental frequency and duration of the initial vowel ("a") determine if you will hear the sound as one word ("l'ami") or two ("la mie"). And this works with other pairs of words too! (4/X)

To reveal this acoustic difference (or "segmentation cue"), we simply generated many new utterances with a random prosody and had participants to categorize them as "c'est l'ami" or "c'est la mie". Then, by relating the exact prosody in each trial and the corresponding response of the observer... (3/X)

We used ambiguous speech stimuli in french, like the sentence "c'est l'ami" (this is the friend) which can also be understood as "c'est la mie" (this is the crumb). The two sentences have exactly the same phonetic content. Still, listeners are generally able to distinguish between them, which indicates that there should be some subtle acoustic differences they can rely on. (2/X)

New #OpenAccess article published in JASA-EL @AcousticalSocietyofAmerica! We used a new technique to explore how listeners segment continuous speech sounds into words. A thread and a demo ⬇️

https://pubs-aip-org.insb.bib.cnrs.fr/asa/jel/article/3/9/095205/2912705/Prosodic-cues-to-word-boundaries-in-a-segmentation
@psycholinguistics @psychology @linguistics #psycholinguistics #linguistics

Last week, I was at Forum Acusticum, a European conference in acoustics. Traditionally, the opening session includes an awards ceremony. I was shocked to discover that in the ten previous editions of the conference, no prize has *ever* been awarded to a woman scientist (gender ratio = 0/20!). And this year, the jury didn't do any better. We're still a long way from gender equality in some scientific fields...

#Etamine, #Notilus et #Goelett : un calvaire pour tous les personnels des laboratoires du #CNRS https://sncs.fr/2023/09/14/etamine-notilus-et-goelett-un-calvaire-pour-tous-les-personnels-des-laboratoires-du-cnrs/
A titre d'exemple je reviens d'une mission à Turin. Total : J'ai dû comprendre la procédure de réservation qui avait encore changé (~1 jour complet avec la responsable admin de mon labo), réussir à me créer un compte sur #fcm (2h) puis réserver des billets de train avec tous les membres de mon équipe (4h car le système ne permet pas la réservation directe de correspondances en train en Europe https://qoto.org/@leovarnet/111057173095916190). Malheureusement suite à l'éboulement en Maurienne il a fallu annuler les billets et prendre des billets d'avion en urgence (1 journée complète). Et l'agence FCM a oublié d'acheter un billet retour ce qui m'a valu encore une demie journée de panique pour trouver un autre moyen de rentrer.
Tout ça n'est pas seulement horripilant, c'est aussi du temps où je suis payé par le denier public juste pour gérer des outils dysfonctionnels.

Yesterday Géraldine Carranante presented our ongoing project to the #fa2023 conference. In short, we apply #ReverseCorrelation to the #auditory modality to uncover the #acoustic cues used during #SpeechPerception. More info here: https://qoto.org/web/statuses/110575198775228972 #acoustics #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics

En tant que scientifiques on reçoit de nos institutions de nombreuses incitations à plus de sobriété énergétique dans la recherche, des questionnaires pour évaluer notre empreinte carbone, etc...
... et quand on veut planifier un voyage en Europe sur l'outil de réservation de voyages #fcm #goelett celui-ci ne propose que des trajets en avion. Franchement je suis tout à fait convaincu de la nécessité de changer nos pratiques de recherche. Mais là, de qui se moque-t-on? @academicchatter @labos1point5

First talk from our group at #fa2023: Alejandro Osses presented our work on tone-in-noise detection and auditory models, and the freely available #OpenSource #MATLAB toolbox for running revcorr experiments. More info in my previous thread https://qoto.org/web/statuses/110945379680107330 #acoustics #auditory #psychoacoustics

Yesterday I was visiting the museum of cinema in #Torino. I was amazed to discover that Camille Flammarion was using the magic lantern during his scientific conferences:

"In 1866 I started using limelight projection devices in my astronomy lectures: their bright images were an effective complement every to illustrate astronomic principles... We started by projecting the 30 images from my publication The Wonders of the Heavens which were the entire content of my illustrated conferences."

... the first PowerPoint presentation in human history!

@academicchatter #academicchatter #fa2023 #academia

When I tell my colleagues that I'm going to be a dad soon, the usual reaction is "family comes before research" or "babies are better than science". This is indeed a nice advice... but it's noteworthy that it doesn't go without saying for researchers. #AcademicChatter