SPSC2003 Acoustics of Speech and Hearing

Week by Week Planner

To read the handouts you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader

Download Information for Students handbook.

Term 1 - Physical Acoustics

Wk	Notes	Lecture Topic	Laboratory Experiment	Report
2.		Introduction to Course	The Damped Pendulum	Brief
3.		Sound	Sound Pressure Level Scale	Full
4.		Periodic Sounds	Pitch	Brief
5.		Harmonic Analysis	Harmonic Synthesis	Brief
6.		Frequency Sensitivity	Frequency Response	Brief
7.	READING WEEK
8.		Noise and Filters	Signals and Systems Workbench	Brief
9.		Source-Filter Model	Speech Signal Spectra	Full
10.		Audio Recording	Speech Recording	Brief
11.		Physical Acoustics Review	Recording Session	Test
12.		Spectrography	The Spectrograph	Brief

Term 2 - Speech and Hearing

Wk	Notes	Lecture Topic	Laboratory Experiment	Report
1.		The Mechanism of the Larynx	Voice Quality	Brief
2.		Fundamental Frequency Analysis	Analysis of Intonation	Full
3.		Acoustic-Phonetic Model of Vowel Spectra	Spectrographic Analysis of Vowels	Brief
4.		Acoustic-Phonetics Model of Fricative Spectra	Spectrographic Analysis of Fricatives	Brief
5.		Consonant Place and Manner	Spectrographic Analysis of Formant Transitions	Brief
6.	READING WEEK
7.		Plosives and Nasals	Voice Onset Time	Brief
8.		Perception Tests	Perception of Synthetic Speech	Full
9.		Hearing 1: Perception of Intensity	Pure Tone Audiometry	Brief
10.		Hearing 2: Frequency analysis in the inner ear	None	Test
11.		Hearing 3: Auditory Filtering	Cochlear Simulations	Brief

Term 3 - Revision

Wk	Notes	Lecture Topic	Laboratory Experiment	Report
1.		The Speech Chain Revisited	Tutorials