Alberta Phonetics Lab

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts
Affiliated Researcher: Benjamin V. Tucker

The Alberta Phonetics Laboratory is a collaborative space affiliated with the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics and the Language Documentation Research Centre. The lab focuses on speech perception in general and explicit pattern recognition models of speech perception in particular. Another focus is the investigation of phonetic details typical of spontaneous speech, specifically speech reduction. The lab also has laboratory phonology and experimental testing of linguistic and psycholinguistic hypotheses.

Artificial General Intelligence Laboratory

Department of Computing Science, Faculty of Science
Affiliated Researcher: Vadim Bulitko

Bel Canto Vocal Acoustics Laboratory

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts
Affiliated Researcher: Benjamin V. Tucker

The Alberta Phonetics Laboratory is a collaborative space affiliated with the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics and the Language Documentation Research Centre. The lab focuses on speech perception in general and explicit pattern recognition models of speech perception in particular. Another focus is the investigation of phonetic details typical of spontaneous speech, specifically speech reduction. The lab also has laboratory phonology and experimental testing of linguistic and psycholinguistic hypotheses.

Bioacoustic Unit

Faculty of Science
Affiliated Researcher: Erin Bayne

The Bioacoustic Unit is a collaboration between the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute and the Bayne Lab at the University of Alberta. The Bioacoustic Unit is the authority on best practices for using acoustic technology in the province, providing services to support the application of acoustic technology.

Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE)

Department of Music, Faculty of Arts
Affiliated Researcher: Michael Frishkopf

The Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology is a research, training, and teaching facility dedicated to the capture, digitization, editing, production, storage, and analysis of ethnomusicological media, including text, score, image, audio, and video. It contains a high capacity RAID array, as well as a set of analog and digital equipment, including a powerful workstation capable of rapid video processing and suitable for running machine learning algorithms; and field equipment. The Lab also contains a portal for the Museums and Collections Services Multimimsy museum database.

Electro Acoustic Research Studio (EARS)

Faculty of Arts
Affiliated Researcher: Scott Smallwood

The Mechanical Engineering Acoustics and Noise Unit (MEANU) was founded in 1984, and is a part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. MEANU is the only full-scale Canadian acoustics laboratory directly associated with a university, and is used for educational and research purposes as well as commercial testing.

Mechanical Engineering Acoustics and Noise Unit (MEANU)

Faculty of Engineering
Affiliated Researcher: Corjan Buma

The Mechanical Engineering Acoustics and Noise Unit (MEANU) was founded in 1984, and is a part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. MEANU is the only full-scale Canadian acoustics laboratory directly associated with a university, and is used for educational and research purposes as well as commercial testing.

Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science
Affiliated Researcher: Christopher Sturdy

Research in the Songbird Neuroethology Laboratory seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of songbird communication by studying behaviour and the neural systems controlling behaviour. The lab is equipped with 20 operant chambers designed to test auditory perception and cognition in small birds.