SOCRATES Thematic Network in Phonetics and Speech Communication

Inventory of Internet Resources

Educational Materials

Probably the biggest list of speech technology links available. From the comp.speech newsgroup Frequently Asked Questions list.

URL: http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/comp.speech/SpeechLinks.html

A perception test, replicating a classical experiment on Categorical Perception.

URL: http://www.ling.umu.se:80/~anderse/education/Katper.html

Language: versions in Swedish and English.

Course material on acoustic phonetics

URL: http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/AP/APHome.html

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An audio-visual tutorial on clinical linguistics and phonetics. Contents: Introduction to the motor system and neuro imaging, description of language and speech pathologies, language and speech diagnostics, glossary and extensive bibliography. The tutorial is mostly in German.

URL: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/joerg/sgtutorial/

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Extensive structured list of language and speech related hyperlinks.

URL: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/joerg/worldwide/lingphon.html

This is a tutorial on linguistic and paralinguistic phenomena in speech. It touches the following topics: F0; formants; Swedish vowels; linguistic, expressive, organic, and transmittal factors shaping speech signals; the importance of F0 for the perception of these different kinds of qualities, especially in vowels; manipulations of paralinguistic quality; the modulation theory of speech; the role of expectations and perception by compatibility testing.

URL: http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/tur.htm

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This is a demonstration of the importance of the frequency of the voice fundamental for the perception of the linguistic, expressive, and organic qualities of vowels. It is shown that not only the organic and expressive qualities of a vowel, but also its linguistic quality varies widely with F0.

URL: http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/i.htm

The most accurate equations for Hz to bark converseion and inverse presented together with some reasoning about when it is correct to use CB-rate and ERB.

URL: http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/bark.htm

List of home pages referring to Research Laboratories in Phonetics & Speech Communication. This list is proposed by ESCA, the European Speech Communication Association

URL: http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/esca/labos.html

Presentation of several 3D models of facial components controlled by speech-oriented command parameters.

URL: http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/2.6.html

This is a free web-based course in Corpus Linguistics designed to provide a brief introduction to the area. It is based on a cut-down version of the book on Corpus Linguistics published by Edinburgh University Press. The course was developed as part of a collaborative venture between Lancaster University and Edinburgh University Press under the Innovation in Higher Education programme.

URL: http:/www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/linguistics/contents.htm

Links to many pages that are related to phonetics and speech sciences: Meetings, Lists, Phonetics, Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Dictionaries, Newsletters

URL: http://fonsg3.let.uva.nl/Other_pages.html

Information about the languages of the world. Language resources, dictionaries, tutorials, samples.

URL: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~bear/Language-Page.html

Search for books and articles on subjects allied to Phonetics and Speech Technology.

URL: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~ifb/bib_engl.html

ToBI (for Tones and Break Indices) is a system for transcribing the intonation patterns and other aspects of the prosody of English utterances.

URL: http://ling.ohio-state.edu/Phonetics/E_ToBI/etobi_homepage.html

An ordered list (on keyword and title) of Internet sources with United Resourse Locator, summary and additional comments.

URL: http://grid.let.rug.nl/~degraaf/EthnoPhon/linklist.html

Phonetics: Overview of Phonetics, Consonants, Vowels and More..., Phonetic Examples, Phonetic Transcription/American English... Phonology: Overview of Phonology, Phonological Rules, Phonological Rules Practice, Autosegmental Phonology.

URL: http://www.csulb.edu/~phoneme/pronunciation.html

A brief introduction to waveforms, spectrograms and other speech analyses.

URL: http://www.ling.lu.se/research/speechtutorial/tutorial.html

16 DSDD disks, requiring about 25 meg of disk space when expanded. These disks include nearly all the material in the tables and exercises in the textbook A Course in Phonetics.

URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/software.htm

This package includes two versions of a stack Acoustics for Phoneticians, one for students in which there is a lot of explanation on each card, and one for instructors to use in class, with fewer words in large type.

URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/software.htm

Links to Hypermedia demonstrations and collections: Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition, and others

URL: http://fonsg3.let.uva.nl/IFA-Features.html

Activities of the International Phonetic Association

URL: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html

Le but de ce document est de servir de support à l'apprentissage de la phonétique et à la maîtrise de l'Alphabet Phonétique International (A.P.I.). Vous pouvez parcourir cet (hyper)texte à votre guise, soit linéairement du premier chapitre au dernier, en sautant directement au chapitre qui vous intéresse grâce à la table des matière.

URL: http://www.unil.ch/ling/phonetique/api.html

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The course is designed so that either native or non-native English speakers can achieve quite a sophisticated understanding of the basics of phonology. It is designed as a teaching aid rather than as a definitive study of phonology and, as such, sacrifices detail in favour of clarity and ease of understanding.

URL: http://www.stir.ac.uk/epd/celt/staff/higdox/stephen/phono/phonolg.htm

A description (w. sound clips in .au and -aiff) of the Pattern Playback `talking machine', an early speech synthesiser constructed in the late 1940s.

URL: http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Haskins/Haskins/MISC/PP/pp.html

Introductory text on speech synthesis w. a link to the Haskins Pattern playback page.

URL: http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/HS/Synthese.html

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"Click and Listen" is a network-based teaching resource for phonetics and phonology, with particular emphasis on the sounds of Scots and Scottish English. The WWW site contains examples of the type of material being developed.

URL: http://wheecher.arts.ed.ac.uk/

Gives a list of the articles published in the "Speech Communication" Journal since 1994.

URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/eee/specom/contents.html

Web SLS is a joint initiative of ESCA, EACL & ELSNET Given the wide coverage of the Journal in terms of scientific areas, nine very broad classes on which to concentrate have been selected: SRS - speech recognition and synthesis NLUG - natural language understanding and generation LI - language identification IER - information extraction and retrieval DMC - dialogue modelling and control MLPP - models of language perception and production SM - stochastic modelling GCLD - grammars, corpora, lexicons and databases SAS - system assessment strategies

URL: http://wrangler.essex.ac.uk/web-sls/

The World Wide Web provides an excellent opportunity to fix a serious problem in science -- the long delay in publishing research results in scientific journals. Typically, more than a year goes by, often two, between the time a manuscript is submitted for publication and the time it appears in print. The Web provides an efficient means of communicating research advances and new ideas, and an opportunity to reduce publication delay by an order of magnitude. The motivation for founding the Free Speech Journal (FSJ) is to improve communication among scientists in the area of human language technology. This is done by providing a peer review journal (FSJ) for publishing research results of the highest quality in the shortest possible amount of time.

URL: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/fsj/home.html

Information is available on the following topics: Facial Animation Facial Analysis Speechreading (Lipreading) Speech

URL: http://mambo.ucsc.edu/

Why would anyone want to read a spectrogram? The following links provide background knowledge about spectrogram reading. What are waveforms? What are spectrograms? What are phonemes? The following links allow you to improve your spectrogram reading skills Spectral cues for English phonemes View spectrograms for common words Call the CSLU and see your own voice The current mystery spectrogram

URL: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/cse551/

Course material on spectrogram reading

URL: http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/SGL/SGLHome.html

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A description of Wolfgang von Kempelen's speaking machine (18th century) and (in German) of more recent speech synthesizers (VODER, Pattern Playback, OVE), illustrated with pictures and auditory samples.

URL: http://www.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/kempln.htm

Language: In German, English, and Esperanto.

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