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Laboratory on the Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2005

Topics

  • Broadband Spectral Analysis of English Vowels; Vocal Tract Transfer Functions for Vowels; Nasalization of Vowels
  • Broadband Spectral Analysis of Sonorant English Consonants: Nasals, Liquids, Glides; Sound Sources and Transfer Functions for Consonants
  • Sound Generation from Turbulence in the Vocal Tract; Spectral Analysis of Fricative and Stop Consonants; Frication Noise and Aspiration Noise
  • Sound Generation at the Larynx; Inverse Filtering and Spectrum of Glottal Source; Effect of Glottal Source on Spectra of Vowels
  • Anatomy/Physiology of Speech Production Apparatus
  • Interpretation of Cineradiographic Motion Pictures
  • Further Discussion of Speech Movements
  • Quantal Nature of Articulatory-to Acoustic Relations; Quantal Theory for Consonant Place of Articulation and for Vowels
  • Respiration for Speech; Initiation and Termination of Utterances; Techniques for Measuring Respiration during Speech
  • Some Reduction and Assimilation Phenomena in Fluent Speech; Effects of Stress
  • Prosody 1: Vowel and Consonant Durations in Speech; Duration Rules for English
  • Prosody 2: Measurement and Interpretation of Fundamental Frequency Contours, Respiratory Constraints
  • Evaluation of Segmental Intelligibility; Intelligibility, Comprehension, Naturalness, Cognitive Load for Words in Sentences
  • Speech Disorders
  • Speech Synthesis using a Formant Synthesizer; Review Acoustic Theory of Speech Production, Formant Synthesis; Synthesizing Syllables
  • No Lecture
  • Higher-Level Synthesis with a Formant Synthesizer, using Quasi-articulatory Parameters
  • Topic Selection for Individual Term Project Research; Each Student describes Proposed Research
  • Use of Landmarks and Features for Speech Recognition; Labeling of Sentences; Rules for Feature Modification
  • Further Discussion of Feature-Based Models
  • Individual Term Project Research
  • Student Oral Reports on Term Project Results

Readings

  • Buy at MIT Press This section shows the set of readings for each lab, which are to be read before class. The readings are from the required textbook: Stevens, K. N. Acoustic Phonetics . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262194044. ↗
    Listed reading
  • SES #: L2 · TOPICS: Broadband Spectral Analysis of English Vowels; Vocal Tract Transfer Functions for Vowels; Nasalization of Vowels · LABS: Lab 2: Spectrographic and Spectrum Analysis of the English Vowel System · READINGS: Chapters 3 and 6
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: L3 · TOPICS: Broadband Spectral Analysis of Sonorant English Consonants: Nasals, Liquids, Glides; Sound Sources and Transfer Functions for Consonants · LABS: Lab 3: Broadband Spectral Analysis of Sonorant Consonants · READINGS: Chapter 9
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: L4 · TOPICS: Sound Generation from Turbulence in the Vocal Tract; Spectral Analysis of Fricative and Stop Consonants; Frication Noise and Aspiration Noise · LABS: Lab 4: Spectral Analysis of Stop and Fricative Consonants · READINGS: Chapters 7 and 8
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: L5 · TOPICS: Sound Generation at the Larynx; Inverse Filtering and Spectrum of Glottal Source; Effect of Glottal Source on Spectra of Vowels · LABS: Lab 5: Sound Generation at the Larynx: Characteristics of the Glottal Source · READINGS: Chapter 2
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: L6 · TOPICS: Anatomy/Physiology of Speech Production Apparatus · READINGS: Chapter 1
    Reading assignment
  • Lab 6: Interpretation of Cineradiographic Motion Pictures Chapter 1
    Listed reading
  • SES #: L11 · TOPICS: Some Reduction and Assimilation Phenomena in Fluent Speech; Effects of Stress · LABS: Lab 10: Sound Segment Reduction · READINGS: Chapter 10
    Reading assignment
  • Buy at MIT Press Stevens, K. N. Acoustic Phonetics . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262194044. ↗
    Required
  • Beranek, L. Acoustics . Revised ed. New York, NY: Acoustical Society of America, 1986. ISBN: 9780883184943.
    Listed reading
  • Buy at MIT Press Chomsky, N., and M. Halle. The Sound Pattern of English . Reprint ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780262530972. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Denes, P. B., and E. N. Pinson. The Speech Chain: The physics and biology of spoken speech _._ 2nd ed. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1993. ISBN: 9780716723448.
    Listed reading
  • Flanagan, J. L. Speech Analysis, Synthesis and Perception . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1972. ISBN: 9780387055619.
    Listed reading
  • Hardcastle, W. J., and J. Laver, eds. The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences . Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. ISBN: 9780631188483.
    Listed reading
  • Kent, Raymond D., Bishnu S. Atal, and Joanne L. Miller, eds. Papers in Speech Communication: Speech Production . New York, NY: Acoustical Society of America, 1991. ISBN: 9780883189580.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Papers in Speech Communication: Speech Perception . New York, NY: Acoustical Society of America, 1991. ISBN: 9780883189597.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Papers in Speech Communication: Speech Processing . New York, NY: Acoustical Society of America, 1991. ISBN: 9780883189603.
    Listed reading
  • O’Shaughnessy, D. Speech Communications: Human and Machine . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Wiley-IEEE Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780780334496.
    Listed reading
  • Pisoni, D., and R. Remez, eds. The Handbook of Speech Perception . Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 9780631229278.
    Listed reading
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