Facilities
The current lab is a first-rate research facility that meets the needs of a wide range of faculty and students for conducting sound production, perception and processing experiments.
Recording Studio/Perception Area
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Recording Studio/Perception Area is a sound treated area, which can be used for high quality speech recording and for perception experiments. This area can accommodate up to four people at a given time. Equipment inside the recording studio includes three Dell Optiplex 360 desktops and three 19-inch flat monitors for presenting visuals to the subjects. There are two setups designed for high quality recordings: the new MOTU Ultralight setup allows recording directly onto the resident computer & Marantz solid-state PMD670 recorder. The recording studio also contains 3 speakers, 3 headphones (Sony MDR-CD780 and Sennheiser HD 280 pro), 2 Shure SM10A unidirectional head-worn microphones, Superlab button boxes, E-Prime Serial Response Box, and 3 keyboards and mouse.
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Experimenter Area
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Experimenter Area is just outside the recording studio/perception area. It contains a computer and monitor (with the mirror screen feature) that allows the experimenter to control the tasks within the sound booth remotely.
Work/Meeting Area
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Work/Meeting area houses all undergraduate and graduate research assistants and serves for meetings and informal talks/discussions. This area contains 3 Dell Optiplex 360 computers and 4 Macs for experiment setup, data entry and analyses, sound analyses, and statistical analyses. A ceiling-mounted projector and a screen, a PC laptop and speakers are available for presentations.
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Software on the computers includes MS Office, SuperLabPro (experiment-running package with custom-made button boxes), Max 5 and E-Prime (experiment-running packages), Praat (for acoustic analyses), Audobe Audition (for preparing speech stimuli and experiment running), SPSS and R (for statistical analyses).
