Describing unidentified sounds with words is a frustrating task and vocally imitating them is
often a convenient way to address the issue. This article reports on a study that compared …

Mutations in late 20th-century sound design have transformed it from an empirical know-how
into a full-fledged research field, with applications in the domain of everyday sound …

Embodied sound design is a process of sound creation that involves the designer's vocal
apparatus and gestures. The possibilities of vocal sketching were investigated by means of …

Imitative behaviors are widespread in humans, in particular whenever two persons
communicate and interact. Several tokens of spoken languages (onomatopoeias …

A natural way of communicating an audio concept is to imitate it with one's voice. This
creates an approximation of the imagined sound (eg a particular owl's hoot), much like how …

Abstract The Sound Design Toolkit is a collection of physically informed sound synthesis
models, specifically designed for practice and research in Sonic Interaction Design. The …

Identifying the properties of on-going events by the sound they produce is crucial for our
interaction with the environment when visual information is not available. Here, we …

We searched for evidence that the auditory organization of categories of sounds produced
by actions includes a privileged or “basic” level of description. The sound events consisted …

Health care, public safety, home security and self-driving cars applications rely on the
automatic identification and interpretation of sound events. For example, abnormal …

Describing complex sounds with words is a difficult task. In fact, previous studies have
shown that vocal imitations of sounds are more effective than verbal descriptions [Lemaitre …