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2 months ago

IIIT Researchers Develop Speech-Generating Stethoscope for People with Speech Impairments

IIIT Hyderabad researchers have developed a machine learning (ML) model that can generate intelligible speech output for people with speech impairments using a wireless stethoscope. The model uses the minimalist design of a stethoscope to convert behind-the-ear vibrations into speech. The findings were published in a research paper titled 'StethoSpeech: Speech generation through a clinical stethoscope attached to the skin'. …

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Scientists Develop Stethoscope-Based Speech Interface for People with Speech Impairments

India Today

Researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad have developed a Silent Speech Interface (SSI) that can convert non-audible murmurs into intelligible speech. The SSI uses a stethoscope attached behind the ear to capture NAM vibrations and convert them into speech. The system can work even for users who were not part of the original training, and it …

Science Law Technology Health and Medicine Hyderabad

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Detecting agricultural pests through sound : Short Wave : NPR

NPR

How listening to the sounds of insects can help detect agricultural pests Enlarge this image toggle caption Lina Tran Lina Tran On a muggy June morning, Emily Bick winds through a field of knee-high corn, just north of Madison, Wisconsin. Enlarge this image toggle caption Lina Tran/NPR Lina Tran/NPR Bick, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researches ways to …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Noise from techno music fest in Inglewood spurs shocked complaints, is heard and felt miles away

LA Times

The complaints began early Friday afternoon on social media platforms including Reddit and X and continued until late Saturday night. The loud music and vibrating bass could be heard and felt across the Los Angeles’ Westside, from Culver City to Manhattan Beach. The source of the earsplitting disruption was the Hard Summer music festival held at Hollywood Park, adjacent to …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Psychedelics Are Now Legal in Australia—With a Catch

Bloomberg

The sun was setting at the Holy Cross retreat center in Melbourne, bathing dozens of students in orange light as they performed breathing exercises. As they walked counterclockwise, humming in harmony, someone struck a singing bowl, which sent deep vibrations across the room. The students at the session, held in November, didn’t fit the typical profile of new age seekers. …

7 months, 1 week ago

Good vibrations... bad blood: Drugs, bitter feuds, tragedies - a new documentary charts the dark side of The Beach Boys' sunny sound

Daily Mail

They were the ultimate feel-good pop group of the 60s: five wholesome Californian kids dressed in identical shirts, tossing sun-bleached hair, flashing dazzling smiles and singing in soaring harmony about surfing trips, hot rods and beach parties with pretty girls in bikinis. The Beach Boys : Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Dennis Wilson and Bruce Johnston ‘It’s …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Early ears, audible plants, and bizarre acoustic experiments through the years

Hindustan Times

The Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras discovered, in the 6th century BCE, that harmony could also be a matter of math. About 1,000 years later, in the 16th century, the modern study of waves and acoustics began, with Italian astronomer, mathematician and philosopher Galileo Galilei exploring the relationship between the pitch of a taut string and its vibrating length. It …

Sound Hear Ears

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Dune film maestro recalls China influence

China Daily

A scene from the movie shows the imposing fictional sandworms. The film's sandworms — depicted as colossal and formidable creatures capable of reaching lengths of up to 400 meters on Arrakis — have become one of the most heatedly debated topics, with some Chinese netizens jokingly describing Paul summoning the creature beneath the sand as akin to "hailing an Uber". …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

What is a sound bath? 5 ways it helps you relax

India TV News

Feeling overwhelmed by the daily grind? Enter the sound bath, an increasingly popular practice that uses vibrations and music to usher you into a state of deep relaxation. Imagine a guided meditation where, instead of focusing on your breath, you immerse yourself in a soundscape of soothing music, healing vibrations from instruments like gongs and singing bowls, or calming nature …

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10 months ago

These potholes are keeping us awake at night: Furious villagers reveal they can't sleep because they can feel the 'vibrations' when cars drive over the craters

Daily Mail

Villagers whose streets have been blighted by potholes have revealed how they are being kept awake at night by 'vibrations' when cars drive over the craters. Homeowners say the 'really bad' potholes on High Lane, the central road that runs through the village, are 'keeping families awake' due to the vibrations which take place when vehicles hit the cavities and …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Is Mars tectonically more active than previously thought?

The Hindu

The quake, which had a magnitude of 4.7 and caused vibrations to reverberate through Mars for at least six hours, was recorded by NASA’s InSight lander on May 4 2022. Because its seismic signal was similar to previous quakes known to be caused by meteoroid impacts, the team believed that this event might have been caused by an impact as …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Haptic technology creates new ways to experience music for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing

ABC

For more than a decade, whenever 26-year-old Lauren Fox watched live music, she would focus on the vibrations of one instrument. But this technology can also be used to communicate different sounds, says University of Southampton senior research fellow Mark Fletcher, who studies haptic technology and hearing loss. "People love this — the amazing amount of detail they can get …

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1 year, 3 months ago

What is a moonquake? Chandrayaan-3 detects ‘natural’ seismic activity on Moon

Firstpost

In its latest findings, Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram Lander has detected ‘natural’ seismic activity on the lunar surface. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, ISRO wrote, “Instrument for the Lunar Seismic Activity payload on Chandrayaan 3 Lander – the first Micro Electro Mechanical Systems technology-based instrument on the moon – has recorded the movements of Rover and other payloads. Chandrayaan-3 Mission: …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Chandrayaan-3 lander instruments detect ’natural’ movement. Details here

Live Mint

The initial assessment of the first-ever measurements of the near-surface lunar plasma environment over the south pole region by RAMBHA-LP payload onboard Chandrayaan-3 lander indicates that plasma there is relatively sparse, ISRO said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the ILSA payload on Chandrayaan 3 lander to study lunar seismic activity has not only recorded the movements of rover and other payloads, but …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Quake on Moon? Chandrayaan 3's seismic probe detects 'natural' movement

Hindustan Times

Chandrayaan 3 latest updates: Indian Space Research Organisation on Thursday announced the findings of another in-situ scientific experiment conducted by the Chandrayaan 3 moon mission where the Lunar Seismic Activity payload recorded an event, “appearing to be a natural one”. Chandrayaan 3's Vikram lander "Chandrayaan-3 Mission: In-situ Scientific Experiments - Instrument for the Lunar Seismic Activity payload on Chandrayaan 3 …

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1 year, 5 months ago

India's largest radio telescope key to detecting the universe's vibrations

The Hindu

India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope was one of the world's six large telescopes that played a key role in finding the first direct evidence for the relentless vibrations of the fabric of the universe, caused by ultra-low frequency gravitational waves. "It is fantastic to see our unique uGMRT data being used for the ongoing international efforts on gravitational wave astronomy," …

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1 year, 5 months ago

India’s largest radio telescope plays vital role in detecting universe’s vibrations

The Hindu

India’s Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope was among the world’s six large telescopes that played a vital role in providing evidence confirming the presence of gravitational waves using pulsar observations, said scientists on Thursday. An international team of astronomers from India, Japan and Europe has published the results from monitoring pulsars, called ‘nature’s best clocks’, by using six of the world’s …

India Results Gravitational Waves Radio Universe Signals Telescope

1 year, 8 months ago

Drawing with music

The Hindu

After Vali learns about the magic of rainbows, he becomes curious to know more about Indira’s skills. Indira: Yes.that’s one of the reasons every time the Asuras attack me, the Trinity comes to protect me. This is the demonstration of the two-dimensional wave patterns formed by the vibration of the plate at a specific frequency, as discovered by Ernst Chladni …

Sound Indira Devas

1 year, 9 months ago

SCIENCE NOTEBOOK | Snakes can hear better than we thought

The Hindu

Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:40 IST - 2 MINS READ ONE was always told that snakes’ response to a snake charmer was only visual and not auditory. “Because snakes don’t have external ears, people typically think they’re deaf and can only feel vibrations through the ground and into their bodies,” Zdenek said. “But our research—the first of its kind …

Sound Snake Snakes

1 year, 11 months ago

A twisting mystery of electrons, vibrations and heat

The Hindu

High-school physics: When charged particles enter an area where there is a magnetic field, a force deflects them away from their path. “To see the thermal Hall effect, phonons need to be deflected perpendicular to their direction of motion, so skew-scattering is important,” Dr. Mukerjee said. “Phonons don’t have to be directly deflected by individual electrons; they can also be …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Morbi bridge collapse victims hang onto ropes, cry for help seconds after incident | Video

India Today

A video of victims of the Gujarat’s Morbi bridge collapse, hanging onto a rope and crying for help is going viral on social media. The viral video was shot when a cable bridge collapsed in the Machchhu river in Gujarat's Morbi district on Sunday evening, killing at least 140 people while injuring over 150. When the bridge broke, people on …

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2 years, 1 month ago

What led to bridge collapse? Authorities' blunder, crowd-induced vibrations or end of 'service life'

India Today

The authorities’ mismanagement, crowd-induced vibrations or end of the ‘service life’ are reasons being probed to find out exactly what led to the collapse of a 145-year-old suspension bridge built during British rule on the Machchhu river in Gujarat’s Morbi, killing 141 people. They are the authorities’ mismanagement, crowd-induced vibrations and the end of the ‘service life’ of the bridge. …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Experts flag threat to heritage structures within palace fort premises

The Hindu

The collapse of a portion of the palace fort wall on Monday has raised concern among heritage experts in the city over the canon firing practice conducted in the run-up to the Dasara festival ever year as it could pose a threat to other protected monuments as well. Though multiple causes have been attributed to the collapse of the portion …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Reviewers Swear By These Heated Chairs And Cushions To Relieve Back Pain

Huff Post

A portable massaging seat cushion Great for the car or an existing office chair, this plush massage cushion is equipped with full seat and back-warming therapy and six precise vibrational massage modes that can target specific areas of the back and legs at four varying intensities. The no-slip back also ensures that the cushion stays secure while in use. It …

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IIIT Researchers Develop Speech-Generating Stethoscope for People with Speech Impairments

Scientists Develop Stethoscope-Based Speech Interface for People with Speech Impairments

Detecting agricultural pests through sound : Short Wave : NPR

Noise from techno music fest in Inglewood spurs shocked complaints, is heard and felt miles away

Psychedelics Are Now Legal in Australia—With a Catch

Good vibrations... bad blood: Drugs, bitter feuds, tragedies - a new documentary charts the dark side of The Beach Boys' sunny sound

Early ears, audible plants, and bizarre acoustic experiments through the years

Dune film maestro recalls China influence

What is a sound bath? 5 ways it helps you relax

These potholes are keeping us awake at night: Furious villagers reveal they can't sleep because they can feel the 'vibrations' when cars drive over the craters

Is Mars tectonically more active than previously thought?

Haptic technology creates new ways to experience music for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing

What is a moonquake? Chandrayaan-3 detects ‘natural’ seismic activity on Moon

Chandrayaan-3 lander instruments detect ’natural’ movement. Details here

Quake on Moon? Chandrayaan 3's seismic probe detects 'natural' movement

India's largest radio telescope key to detecting the universe's vibrations

India’s largest radio telescope plays vital role in detecting universe’s vibrations

Drawing with music

SCIENCE NOTEBOOK | Snakes can hear better than we thought

A twisting mystery of electrons, vibrations and heat

Morbi bridge collapse victims hang onto ropes, cry for help seconds after incident | Video

What led to bridge collapse? Authorities' blunder, crowd-induced vibrations or end of 'service life'

Experts flag threat to heritage structures within palace fort premises

Reviewers Swear By These Heated Chairs And Cushions To Relieve Back Pain