Laboratory on the Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech

Labs

The table below provides the lab topics for the course. Click on a topic to view additional details about a lab session.

LAB #	TOPICS
1	Recording Speech in a Sound-Treated Room, and Spectral Analysis and Waveform Editing by Computer
2	Spectrographic and Spectrum Analysis of the English Vowel System
3	Broadband Spectral Analysis of Sonorant Consonants
4	Spectral Analysis of Stop and Fricative Consonants
5	Sound Generation at the Larynx: Characteristics of the Glottal Source
6	Interpretation of Cineradiographic Motion Pictures
7	Measuring Speech Movements Using Data from X-ray Microbeam Systems
8	Formant Frequency Calculations from Area Function Data
9	Techniques for Measuring Respiration during Speech
10	Sound Segment Reduction
11	Prosody 1: Vowel and Consonant Durations in Speech
12	Prosody 2: Measurement and Interpretation of Fundamental Frequency Contours
13	Speech Intelligibility and Confusion Matrices
14	Introduction to Speech Disorders: Analysis of the Speech of Children
15	Speech Synthesis Using a Formant Synthesizer
16	Higher-Level Synthesis Using Quasi-articulatory Parameters
17	Use of Landmarks and Features for Speech Recognition