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Interviews in Media
Business Talk podcast, Dec 18, 2025
"From Echoes to AI: Translating Human Sound Perception into Technology"
The Trib Live interview, Oct 16, 2025
"Research shows annoying sounds might not be in your ears, but in your brain"
CMU News interview, Aug 20, 2025
"Laurie Heller Is Changing How We Understand, and Potentially Treat, Misophonia"
The Science of Sound, part 1, July 16, 2025
The Science of Sound, part 2, July 31, 2025
CMU Podcast, Where What if Becomes What's Next
News article by CMU "Work that Matters", Sept 2024:
Distinguishing Real Sounds from Deepfakes
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2024/september/distinguishing-real-sounds-from-deepfakes
Interview by Science News Explores, April 2024:
Too much noise can harm far more than our ears.
Article by journalist Lindsey Konkel Neabore, April 2024 issue.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/noise-pollution-harms-brain-health
Interview by Pittsburgh Post Gazette, July 2020:
Interview by the Los Angeles Times, July 2020:
Outreach
Talk at online livestream public event about Misophonia. Aug 28, 2025.
Playtests of AnimalPOV: A climate challenge (2024-2025-2026).
Use a VR headset to embody an animal. Come to CMU or schedule a time at your school/center. RSVP required.
www.auditorylab.org/virtual-reality
Playtests of AnimalPOV: PT (Nov 2025 - 2026)
A Portuguese adaptation of AnimalPOV. Playtests ongoin ITI in Lisbon, Portugal. RSVP required.
www.auditorylab.org/portuguese-vr
Acoustics Today article by Laurie Heller on judging Acoustical Society Awards at
International Science and Engineering Fair. Fall 2022 issue.
Acoustics Today article by Laurie Heller on judging Acoustical Society Awards at
International Science and Engineering Fair. Fall 2021 issue.
When Sound Effects are Better Than the Real Thing
Lay Language Paper by Laurie Heller and Lauren Wolf
https://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/143rd/Heller.html
2022 Proceedings paper with technical details:
https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001581
Organized Symposia and Competitions
Sound Scene Synthesis at the DCASE2024 Challenge
Co-organizer of Task 7, IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), March-July, 2023.
https://dcase.community/challenge2024/
Mathieu Lagrange, Junwon Lee, Modan Tailleur, Laurie M. Heller, Keunwoo Choi, Brian McFee, Keisuke Imoto, and Yuki Okamoto.
Sound scene synthesis at the dcase 2024 challenge. arXiv:2501.08587, 2025.
Junwon Lee, Modan Tailleur, Laurie M. Heller, Keunwoo Choi, Mathieu Lagrange, Brian McFee, Keisuke Imoto, and Yuki Okamoto.
Challenge on sound scene synthesis: evaluating text-to-audio generation. In Audio Imagination: NeurIPS 2024 Workshop AI-Driven Speech, Music, and Sound Generation. 2024.
Foley Sound Synthesis at the DCASE2023 Challenge
Keunwoo Choi*, Jaekwon Im*, Laurie M. Heller*, Brian McFee, Keisuke Imoto, Yuki Okamoto, Mathieu Lagrange, Shinnosuke Takamichi
Co-first-authored paper at DCASE Workshop 2023, Tempere, Finland, September 2023.
Co-organizer of Task 7, IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), March-July, 2023.
https://dcase.community/challenge2023/
Synergy between Human and Machine approaches to sound/scene recognition and processing
Heller LM, Elizalde B, Raj B, Deshmuk S, Co-chairs of Special Session
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes, Greece, June 2023.
Environmental Sounds: Perception, Cognition, Applications
Heller LM, Shafiro V, Co-chairs of Special Session
Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, May 12, 2023.
Design Applications
This blog post describes how a former lab member's psychology research in the Auditory Lab at CMU
can be applied to her post-graduation human-centered design work in industry
It's All About You - by Nicole Navolio
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