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Building bridges

Why engineers and writers could benefit from working together on stories, as we’ve been doing on the Inventive Podcast.

Published October 26, 2021
Categorized as Engineering Tagged engineer, engineering, inventive, podcast

Inventive Podcast

How engineering is poorly served by its portrayal in the media, and how we’ve teamed up with fiction writers to tackle this in the Inventive Podcast.

Published June 24, 2021
Categorized as Engineering, radio Tagged engineering, epsrc, fiction, inventive, podcast, public engagement, radio

Halloumi glass harmonica

How I made a halloumi glass harmonica for a TV demo and played Ode to Joy … just.

Published May 31, 2021
Categorized as music Tagged glass harmonica, halloumi, stick-slip, TV

Clear facemasks: early tests

Some experiments on clear facemasks we’re doing at Salford University to improve communication for PPE.

Published April 20, 2021
Categorized as speech Tagged covid, facemasks, research, speech, speech intelligibility

Acoustic Advent 2020

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The new windows from the 2020 Acoustic Advent run by @trevor_cox @salfordacoustic

Published December 23, 2020
Categorized as advent Tagged 2020, acoustics

Stonehenge: Whispering Gallery?

Stonehenge model

Searching (in vain) for whispering gallery effects in Stonehenge. Pretty FDTD simulations and measurements in our Acoustic Scale Model of Stonehenge.

Published April 28, 2020
Categorized as archaeoacoustics Tagged reflection, stonehenge, whispering gallery

What’s in an (artificial) voice?

An introduction to a new experiment looking at how we respond to artificial voices from BBC R&D and University of Salford.

Published March 13, 2020
Categorized as accent, voice Tagged alexa, artificial voice, google home, personality, siri

Podcast Headphone Spatialiser

The Salford Acoustics’ SpatialPodcast plug-in is designed for podcasters wishing to add more dimensional sound to their recordings.

Published March 7, 2020
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged audio, binaural, headphones, podcast, radio, spatialiser

Stonehenge, henge, henge

Stonehenge model

Did the circle of stones cause focussing and discrete echoes within Stonehenge.

Published March 5, 2020
Categorized as archaeoacoustics Tagged architectural acoustics, echo, focusing, impulse response, reflection, stonehenge

How reverberant was Stonehenge?

1:12 scale model of Stonehenge

The reverberation time in our 1:12 scale model compared to the full scale replica at Maryhill, USA

Published February 3, 2020
Categorized as archaeoacoustics Tagged Maryhill, physical scale model, reverberation, stonehenge

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20 May

Interested in studying for a research degree with me @SalfordAcoustic ? We're running a webinar next wed lunchtime https://hub.salford.ac.uk/sirc-acoustics/2022/05/15/postgraduate-opportunities-acoustics-research-centre-the-university-of-salford/ looking at topics, funding, how to apply etc.

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18 May

The registration for the 1st Clarity Prediction Challenge (CPC1) workshop is open. Improving models of speech intelligibility for hearing loss and aids. Virtual via Zoom https://claritychallenge.github.io/clarity2022-workshop/

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13 May

I'll be joined by author @taniahershman for the session as well. Tania did a fab story for the @PodInventive Episode 1 @ShroukELA https://hub.salford.ac.uk/inventivepodcast/2021/06/14/inventive-podcast-episode-one/ or your usual podcast app

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