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Method and Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education (M.A.T.I.S.S.E.)
April 16-17, 1999
London, UK |
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Speech Pattern Element Analysis and Display - "Lx Speech Studio"
Evelyn Abberton (1,2), Adrian Fourcin (1,2),
Xinghui Hu (2), Colin Bootle (2), and David Miller (2)
(1) Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, UK
(2) Laryngograph Ltd. London, UK
Both teaching and research in Speech Sciences differ radically from
comparable work in the physical sciences because of the need to link different
levels of representation - and analysis. Spectrographic and waveform presentations
are useful first tools but the vital phonetic information which they encapsulate
is not readily accessible. The present work is aimed at meeting three speech
science teaching objectives:
- to show how quite simple phonetically relevant features can be derived
in real-time from combinations of acoustic and physiological data
- provide a basic PC workstation giving a platform for the analysis, display
and measurement of single and combined speech pattern element sets which
are directly related to: pitch; loudness; regularity; frication; and timbre
- discuss particular examples (taken from English, French, Chinese, Sekgalagadi
and speech pathology in the demonstrations).
Special attention is given to establishing links between auditory, articulatory
and physical levels of description and to provide for normalisation in
display and quantification.
Full Paper
Bibliographic reference.
Abberton, Evelyn / Fourcin, Adrian / Hu, Xinghui / Bootle, Colin /
Miller, David (1999):
"Speech pattern element analysis and display - 'Lx Speech Studio'",
In MATISSE-1999, 77-80.