A soothing study session: Students cram in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw as musicians play

From the stage of Amsterdam’s historic concert hall, violinist Hyunjin Cho and cellist Efstratia Chaloulakou look out over ...
Carnegie Mellon University

Recycling by Ear: Heinz College Students Use Sound To Sort Plastic and Cut Costs

A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy investigated whether recycling facilities could effectively sort plastics by the sounds they ...
IEEE

Conformer-based Sound Event Detection with Data Augmentation

Abstract: Sound event detection (SED) is a popular area of research and this paper implements a Conformer-based system to solve it. Conformer is a convolution-augmented Transformer that can use CNN to ...
CAI

These NH students are learning a second language — while they’re still mastering their ABCs

Nearly 80 students have opted into Manchester’s language immersion program. Families cite many benefits, from being able to ...
Edutopia

5 Ways to Teach Embodied Phonics

These strategies help connect movements to phonics instruction, giving kids another way to absorb the crucial information.
Lia Liu on MSN

Learn Chinese initial sounds fast Chinese alphabet part 1

In this short lesson I walk you through the first part of the Chinese alphabet, focusing on the initial sounds in pinyin. I ...

Babies learn a lot in their first year. But their behavior doesn't always tell the full story

Anyone who has spent time with a baby knows how unpredictable the first year can feel. One week a baby suddenly seems to "get ...
IEEE

Deep Learning for Marine Bioacoustics and Fish Classification Using Underwater Sounds

Abstract: The migration of species is an important factor in the analysis of ecological systems. Changes in migratory patterns of a species or a specific group in an ecosystem often follow changes in ...

Bachelor Nation Sounds Offs on Taylor Frankie Paul’s Canceled Bachelorette Season

DeAnna Pappas, Charity Lawson, Ben Higgins, and more Bachelor Nation members have shared their thoughts on Taylor Frankie Paul’s canceled season of ‘The Bachelorette.’ ...