Modeling early phonetic acquisition from child-centered audio data.

Infants learn their native language(s) at an amazing speed. Before they even talk, their perception adapts to the language(s) they hear. However, the mechanisms responsible for this perceptual attunement and the circumstances in which it takes place remain unclear.

Machine Listening for Heart Status Monitoring: Introducing and Benchmarking HSS - the Heart Sounds Shenzhen Corpus.

Auscultation of the heart is a widely studied technique, which requires precise hearing from practitioners as a means of distinguishing subtle differences in heart-beat rhythm. This technique is popular due to its non-invasive nature, and can be an early diagnosis aid for a range of cardiac conditions. Machine listening approaches can support this process, monitoring continuously and allowing for a representation of both mild and chronic heart conditions.