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Matthew Winn
@matthewwinn.bsky.social
Scientist, educator, audiologist, data viz enthusiast. AuD, PhD. Fan of transparent variable names.
Professor at the U of MN
Podcast episode about the acoustic analysis of Taylor Swift's changing vowels! featuring Miski Mohamed and myself
The Eras of Taylor Swift's Changing Dialect - Across Acoustics
Longitudinal studies of how an individual's accent changes over the course of their life are hard to come by. Fortunately, Taylor Swift's decade-plus career-- and the numerous interviews she's given o...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Taylor Swift changed her accent when living in different cities. Miski Mohamed and I analyzed the acoustics of her vowel articulation, showing key features of Southern accent during Taylor’s time in Nashville, and lowered voice pitch during her time in New York City
pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
September 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Using Ant-Man’s voice as a lesson on voice acoustics and vocal tract length
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0qx...
September 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Want to vocode speech? You can use our paper and code! This is a technique used to control spectral resolution and other factors that are important for understanding cochlear implants
github.com/ListenLab/Vo...
pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
August 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Preparing to teach phonetics / acoustics in the fall? Here are some class videos that might be helpful for you!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Intro to Speech Acoustics - YouTube
A series of videos on speech acoustics, for students in speech & hearing sciences, linguistics, psychology, etc.
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
use R to pinpoint where a sound frequency falls on the basilar membrane in the cochlea

freq2mm <- function(freq=NULL, A = 165.4, a = 2.1, length = 35, k = 0.88){
return(log10((freq/A)+k)*length/a)}
July 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
need more real-life examples like this to demonstrate audio concepts
July 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
with geom_box(), every plot is a box plot
July 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reposted by Matthew Winn
Interesting (although not too surprising) that data viz comprehesion uses two-stage process: 1st fast initial pass based on prior knowledge and assumptions about how graphs should behave, 2nd detailed orientated pass only if suggestion something is misleading.

doi.org/10.1007/s106...
#AcademicSky
April 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Reposted by Matthew Winn
Look, I love these sites & I get how politics works & why they're doing it, but every single one makes exactly the same error universities have been making for years:

Research DOES NOT JUST MEAN STEM.

Look around. If you think we also don't need social science & humanities research, look harder.
Northwestern has a great new website explaining why the federally-funded research we do benefits everybody: www.northwestern.edu/research-nu/...
Research Impact : Northwestern University
www.northwestern.edu
April 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Matthew Winn
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Mentally fixing a word that you missed can lead to missing the next thing the talker says. This is a common problem for people who have hearing loss, but is ignored by audiological testing. Check out our new open-access paper on this topic here!
journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/...
June 19, 2024 at 8:13 PM
When a talker repeats the same vowel sequence 34 times in quick succession, a good phonetician simply can’t let that opportunity pass.
I present to you: the definitive acoustic analysis of Ari Melber's pronunciation of "guilty"
May 31, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Academic mentorship is a skill that has to be practiced intentionally - it doesn't just happen automatically. Auditory friends, come join us in this chat on how to be a good mentor
May 23, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Need plot
Need bike plot
Need bike plots
Need to build bike plots line by line
March 27, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Reposted by Matthew Winn
you found that two groups of children have different means on X, not that X can distinguish between two groups of children. keep it clear and boring.
March 21, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Need more plots, all the time
March 20, 2024 at 3:53 AM
First day of class!
September 11, 2023 at 9:36 PM