Bouba / Kiki audio

Voice: Aleksandra Ćwiek.
Source: Ćwiek et al., “The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems.”
Published online 2021; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377 (2022), 20200390.
Article: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0390
Source repository: https://osf.io/w7crs/
Article license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Original recording downloads:
bouba.wav: https://osf.io/download/wa4e7/
kiki.wav: https://osf.io/download/w8sh6/

Recordings retained without pitch, speed or signal processing changes.
Each file: 48 kHz, mono, 16-bit PCM WAV, 0.716 seconds, 68,780 bytes.

SHA-256:
bouba.wav: a0a35801d637c2d62348b4f2d6c7ec7c4de2c6ecf2834b8096dcfd4bbc705fc2
kiki.wav: e57cd356cf9be5f9e25fc790b5971f9e432a2fdc86dcec52c75d2cc8c9f1824b

Prismatic supplies its own shapes and interface. This is an informal demonstration,
not a replication of the study, a hearing assessment, or an endorsement by the researchers.

Other page audio:
“Night Owl” by Broke For Free — https://brokeforfree.com/
CC BY 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Browser demos: transcoded for playback and visualized from the audio spectrum.
Conductor video: excerpted and synchronized to native scene graphics.
Musical texture sounds: synthesized by Prismatic in the browser.