SPSC2003 - Phonetic Science: Acoustics of Speech and Hearing

Outline (more details can be found on the Life Sciences Faculty Courses Database)

This course seeks to explain the processes of spoken language communication by which a message is encoded in sounds, transmitted and then decoded by a listener. Taking as a basis a knowledge of articulatory phonetics and basic anatomy, the course describes the acoustics of speech production, common tools for analysing speech and processes of hearing and perception.

Value: 1 units

Taught by:

Course Home Page

 

Some other pages on our site you may enjoy ...

VTDEMO - Articulatory synthesis teaching tool

VTDemo is a free program designed to demonstrate how the vocal tract generates different sounds.

EFxHist - Fundamental Frequency Histograms

EFxHist is a program to analyse joint speech and laryngograph recordings. EFxHist locates each pitch period in the laryngograph waveform and produces statistical analyses including distributions of fundamental frequency, closed-quotient, jitter and shimmer.

Web Tutorial on Loudness

A tutorial that provides an extensive introduction to our sensation of the loudness of sounds.

University College London - Gower Street - London - WC1E 6BT - Telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 2000 - Copyright © 1999-2013 UCL