[remotemass (OP)]

Possible article by ChatGPT:

New research suggests that exposing newborns to specific sounds during sleep may enhance their musical abilities, including perfect pitch.

According to a team of scientists from top universities and music schools around the world, including Harvard, MIT, Juilliard, and Berklee, listening to 12 randomly selected notes played at a low volume during sleep may stimulate brain circuits involved in processing music and sound, especially during critical periods of development in the first years of life.

The sounds consist of pure sine waves, which have a simple and regular waveform, and were recorded with a free audio editor called Audacity. The 12 notes correspond to the Western music scale, starting with C4 (middle C) and ending with C5 (an octave higher), and are played for five seconds each, followed by a brief fade-in and fade-out period of silence.

The 12 notes are played randomly, synchronized with the atomic clocks of the Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), at a rate of 12 samples per minute, 24/7, for as long as the babies sleep. The sounds are delivered through a popular device called Amazon Echo, using the Alexa app, which can be controlled remotely and adjusted for volume, tone, and other settings.

To make the experience more engaging and memorable, the researchers used the voices of different virtual assistants from a company called Eleven Labs, which specializes in natural language processing and text-to-speech technology. The voices were selected based on their gender and accent, with seven white notes (C, D, E, F, G, A, B) voiced by a female and five black notes (C#, D#, F#, G#, A#) voiced by a male.

The voices announce the number of each note before and after it is played, using clear and consistent English pronunciation, with an emphasis on the frequency of the note in Hertz, rounded to two decimal places. For example, C4 (40) is announced as "C four, two hundred sixty-one point sixty-three", and so on for the other notes.

The researchers plan to monitor the development of the infants who listen to the sounds and compare them with a control group of infants who do not receive any auditory stimulation during sleep. The measures will include behavioral tests, brain scans, and surveys of musical skills and preferences, starting from the age of six months and continuing up to five years.

The researchers hope to confirm that exposing infants to specific sounds during sleep can enhance their musical abilities, including perfect pitch, which is the rare ability to identify and reproduce a musical note without a reference tone. Perfect pitch is more common in people who started musical training early in life, suggesting that it may be a form of neural plasticity that can be enhanced or inhibited by environmental factors, such as exposure to music or language.

The researchers also hope to explore the potential benefits of using similar sounds and voices to enhance the sleep quality and cognitive development of adults and elderly people, as well as to improve the performance of athletes, students, and professionals who need to concentrate and memorize information for long periods of time.

The findings could have implications for the design of audio systems and apps that aim to improve the well-being and productivity of individuals in various contexts, from homes and hospitals to schools and workplaces. The researchers caution, however, that more studies are needed to confirm their hypothesis and to rule out other factors that may affect musical development and cognition.

The researchers also acknowledge that not all babies may benefit equally from the sounds and that some babies may even be disturbed or irritated by the sounds, especially if they are too loud or too monotonous. The researchers encourage parents and caregivers to use their discretion and to consult with their pediatricians or audiologists before exposing their babies to any new sounds or devices.

The researchers also stress that the sounds should not be played loud, with volume 3 of amazon echo being recommended under normal circunstances.

Anyone can record the 12 sounds using pure sine waves of Audacity free software and use female voice for seven white notes and male voice for the five black ones.

C4 (40): 261.63 Hz
C#4/Db4 (41): 277.18 Hz
D4 (42): 293.66 Hz
D#4/Eb4 (43): 311.13 Hz
E4 (44): 329.63 Hz
F4 (45): 349.23 Hz
F#4/Gb4 (46): 369.99 Hz
G4 (47): 392.00 Hz
G#4/Ab4 (48): 415.30 Hz
A4 (49): 440.00 Hz
A#4/Bb4 (50): 466.16 Hz
B4 (51): 493.88 Hz
C5 (52): 523.25 Hz

ZZZzzz. 40 ZZZzzz 52 ... .... (12 random notes a minute in shuffle mode, using samples of 5 seconds each)

[Bored chemist]

Did you know that you can ask chat bots stupid questions without telling us about it?

[alancalverd]

A standard hearing test for aviators is to ping a tuning fork behind the candidate's head. The first time it happened to me I said "C sharp".The medical examiner said "That will get you Grade 5 Singing or a place in a church choir, but if you want to fly, you have to tell me which ear."

Exposing a sleeping subject to continuous pure tones constitutes torture or brainwashing under the Geneva and Nurenberg ethics conventions. For"disturbed or irritated" substitute "permanently damaged".

The use of the Western even tempered scale indicates cultural prejudice.

Praise be to AI for revealing this inhumane and unethical "research". You wouldn't do it to a dog.

[Bored chemist]

se female voice for seven white notes and male voice for the five black ones

Why the hell would you do that?
No... never mind. The whole idea is so stupid that it's not worth explaining bits of it.

[alancalverd]

Rehearsing with a dance band a couple of weeks ago, the arranger suddenly introduced a key change into Cb - 7 flats. Grumbles all around, reading glasses polished, brain cogs whirring, until the pianist said "but it reduces wear on the white notes".

[alancalverd]

Perfect pitch is more common in people who started musical training early in life

Possible inversion of cause and effect, but AI is to stupid to know.

A kid with good pitch is likely to be able to play an instrument more easily, either by hitting the right note on a piano/guitar/saxophone first time by ear, or  knowing what his voice/violin/bass/trombone should sound like from the sheet music.

[alancalverd]

Anyone can record the 12 sounds using pure sine waves of Audacity free software and use female voice for seven white notes and male voice for the five black ones.

More bullshit. A voice is not a pure sinusoidal tone, which is why we can tell male from female even when they sing the same note. Hard to believe any of this crap originated from the Juilliard.

[Bored chemist]

I would just like to point out that the OP is a  serial drive-by spammer.
He never come back to his daft posts to answer questions properly.