Campus & Community An out-of-this-world design hits the high notes June 12, 2026 Medicine, engineering, and pedagogy experts harmonize to help a French horn student overcome a rare throat condition.
Science & Technology Researchers developing tool to instantly conceal and anonymize voices December 5, 2024 The voice-changer system will produce computer-generated speech within milliseconds, allowing users to control factors like age, gender, and dialect.
Science & Technology Play a Bach duet with an AI counterpoint June 8, 2022 BachDuet, developed by University of Rochester researchers, allows users to improvise duets with an artificial intelligence partner.
Science & Technology CAREER awards spur junior researchers along varied paths April 5, 2019 Four Rochester researchers from four different fields are 2019 recipients of the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious recognition for junior faculty members.
Science & Technology Giving virtual reality a ‘visceral’ sound February 13, 2018 Using recital halls as their “labs,” and recording some of the best music students in the world, University researchers are creating virtual reality videos of concerts that literally immerse viewers “within” the performance onstage.
The Arts With automatic transcription, musicians can save themselves the treble August 3, 2017 Two undergraduates have joined a summer research project focused on building a machine-learning interface that generates musical scores from audio files.
Science & Technology New system displays song lyrics in real time, multiple languages May 16, 2017 Zhiyao Duan, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering who also sings in the Chinese Choral Society of Rochester, lent his engineering skills to an innovation that provides the audience with live lyrics and translations.
Science & Technology Unlocking the secrets of blue notes March 31, 2017 In the musical realm, notes “between the cracks” of conventional pitches are called blue notes. Researchers at Rochester are using advanced tools of music technology to unlock the secrets of blue notes.
Health & Medicine Three health analytics projects receive pilot funding August 25, 2016 The University's Goergen Institute for Data Science has awarded grants to three projects aimed at using big data to improve treatment of patients who are in intensive care or who suffer from epilepsy or mental disorders.