Phonetics resource links

This is a collection of links to phonetics-related resources, sporadically updated. Let us know if you find that any of the links have moved or are broken, or if you find something you think we should add!

Some other useful pages like this, with some overlap:

• Jen Smith's List of phonetics resources (and her phonetics class page)
• Nathan Sanders' phonetics class page
• John Ohala's Links and Resources (and his phonetics class page)

Click on a link here to jump down to links the relevant topic:

Speech production	Further functions of the larynx
English consonant articulation	Consonants and vowels beyond English
English consonant acoustics	Phonetics labs around the world
English vowel articulation	Practicing phonetic transcription
English vowel acoustics	Careers using phonetics and linguistics
Connected speech phenomena	Phonetics and linguistics organizations
Speech synthesis	Downloadable phonetic fonts
Speech recognition	More cool stuff

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HOW ARE SPEECH SOUNDS PRODUCED?

• Anatomy of the larynx and vocal folds
• *Cool trachea video(as seen in class!)
• *Video of the vocal folds vibrating
• Anatomy of the vocal tract
• Journey of the voice (hop on the voice train)
• More anatomy in 3D
• On phonation
• On fundamental frequency, sex and gender

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THE ARTICULATION OF ENGLISH CONSONANTS CLASS

• *Interactive sagittal sections
• *Tutorials on english consonants
• Listen to more examples of English consonants
• *Some more examples
• History of English consonants
• 3D tongue models

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PRACTICING PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION (always relevant)

• Transcription practice
• Broad transcription exercises
• Broad transcription reading practice

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ACOUSTICS OF ENGLISH CONSONANTS CLASS

• What is acoustics?
  • Yeah, so what is it?
  • Fricative and stop acoustics
  • Sound waves with cool demos
  • Sound waves and frequency
• Reading spectra and spectrograms
  • *Speech Analysis Basics
  • *Studying Phonetics on the Net
  • Spectra
  • *Guide to reading spectrograms
  • *Consonant synthesis interface

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THE PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH VOWELS

• *Tongues shapes during vowel production
• *Vowel synthesis interface – enter the formant frequency and duration, hear a synthesized vowel with these parameters
• Tutorial on American English vowels (but beware: the symbols used are different from those we use in class)
• *Listen to examples of American vowels
• *Compare British and American vowels
• Listen (if you can make this page work!) to varieties of English from all over the world

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ACOUSTICS OF ENGLISH VOWELS

• The formant frequencies

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CONNECTED SPEECH PHENOMENA

• various lectures on connected speech phenomena: one, *two, three, four, five, six.
• some spectrographic examples of reduction in connected speech(from German)

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SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND RECOGNITION

• *History of Speech Synthesis
• Speech technology resources from U of Washington
• Museum of Speech Analysis and Synthesis
• AT&T text-to-speech synthesis demo
• Bell Labs text-to-speech synthesis demo
• Vowel synthesis interface – enter the formant frequency and duration, hear a synthesized vowel with these parameters
• Consonant synthesis interface

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FURTHER FUNCTIONS OF THE LARYNX

• *Phonation
• More phonation details
• Nifty demos of phonation types

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CONSONANTS AND VOWELS IN OTHER ENGLISH VARIETIES AND OTHER LANGUAGES

• *IviE corpus (prosod of British English dialects; contains many recordings)
• International Dialects of English Archive
• Anything you would like to know about English varieties (not just phonetics)- but without speech samples :-(
• *Foreign Accents in English
• *Consonants in other languages
• *The IPA archive - speech files from various languages
• More language speech files you can download
• An aural and visual presentation of the sounds of the IPA

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SOME PHONETICS LABS AROUND THE WORLD

• In the USA
  • UCSD Phonetics Lab
  • UCLA Phonetics Lab
  • OSU Linguistics Lab
  • USC Phonetics and Phonology Group
  • UCSC Phonetics Info
  • Northwestern University Phonetics Lab
  • Cornell Phonetics Lab
  • UIUC Phonetics
  • Berkeley Phonology Lab
  • Haskins Labortories (Yale)
• In Europe
  • University of Cambridge Phonetics Laboratory
  • Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory
  • The Centre for Speech Technology Research (Edinburgh)
  • University College London Phonetics & Linguistics
  • Leeds Dept.of Linguistics & Phonetics
  • Reading
  • Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence
  • Stockholm Phonetics Lab
  • Lund Dept. of Linguistics& Phonetics
  • Helsinki Lab of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing
  • Helsinki Department of Phonetics
  • Institute of Phonetic Sciences (Amsterdam)
  • Leiden Phonetics Lab
  • Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, Kiel
  • Institute of Phonetics (Saarland)
  • Experimental Phonetics Group (Stuttgart)
• In Australia
  • Phonetics Laboratory Research, University of Melbourne
  • Speech Processing Group, Macquarie University
• Linguistics websites in Japan

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DOWNLOADABLE PHONETIC FONTS

• SIL Encore IPA fonts
• SIL's list of (other) IPA fonts
• The IPA's list of IPA fonts for word processing
• The IPA's list of IPA fonts for WWW documents
• Harder to find fonts
  • SIL's Language fonts in Cyberspace
  • Yamada LanguageCenter Font Archive

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CAREERS IN PHONETICS AND LINGUISTICS

• Who's hiring linguists these days? Are they sane?
• Linguistlist Job Listings
• foNETiks discussion list
• Careers in acoustics
• Linguistic Technology Jobs
• More jobs
• Linguistic Enterprises - Private Sector Jobs for Linguists
• Jobs at Systran
• Sensimetrics

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PHONETIC AND LINGUISTIC ORGANIZATIONS

• Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
• International Phonetic Association (IPA)
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
• British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP)

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MORE COOL STUFF

• Praat, WaveSurfer
• Akustyk for Praat
• More free software for acoustic analysis
• On-line phonetics / phonology courses
• More information on audition
• The sounds of the world's animals! (and more!)
• Archive of misheard song lyrics

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