If the communicated word is unknown to the listener (i.e., it does not exist in the listener's inventory), the listener adds this word to her inventory.
We listened to a few tracks by the jazz soprano Blossom Dearie Blossom Dearie, whose distinctive voice had clarity to it heretofore unknown to this listener, against the backdrop of the soft piano accompaniment on her rendition of "Surrey With The Fringe On Top".
The plainspoken "Natus est rex," a medieval French chant by an unknown composer, allowed listeners to drink in the heady blend of voices, which swelled and lingered in the reverberant space.
An old friend, me, handed up his cables, mikes, headset, Comrex Hotline, Shure mixer, Sony DAT recorder, all of which, he explained, will "squirt the broadcast signal down a telephone line from the ballpark to the radio station" and back out to an unknown number of listeners, including Conan.
Freyman et al. (2001) performed experiments where the interfering speech was spoken by native or nonnative talkers, time-reversed, or spoken in a foreign language, unknown to the listeners.
First, we consider the optimal case, in which the scrambling mechanism is thoroughly unknown to the unauthorized listener, including the key schedule, the structures of the scrambling matrix, and the sparsifying dictionary.
Before "Eruption," Van Halen's technique of fretting with one hand and tapping the fretboard with the other, which creates an almost mechanical blur of notes, was unknown to most pop listeners.
FABIAN ALMAZAN Next week the pianist Fabian Almazan, who is 27 and still unknown to most jazz listeners, will play his first headlining week at the Village Vanguard, opening the same day as the release of his first album, "Personalities".
They, however, provide no information on actual switch costs, because it is unknown whether and how listeners refocus their attention in these conditions.
Mittermayr's own experience also shows how MediumSounds could be used by unknown musicians to find new listeners.
During the evaluation, each listener was asked to identify the unknown speaker in each of the neutral and shouted talking environments (completely two separate talking environments) for every test utterance.
