Subject: Re: manual speech concatenation excersizes for students From: Athanassios Protopapas <protopap@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 23:56:02 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear Mark I also run a lab session of this sort, using praat and phrases recorded impromptu by the students. I lead them on to removing the fricative noise before a vowel to discover with horror that a stop consonant has appeared out of the blue :-) and in general I agree that this is a very useful exercise overall. Although my course and materials are in Greek I would love to see your code and lab sheet for further inspiration since you don't mind sharing. Thank you very much. Thanassi On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Mark Huckvale <m.huckvale@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Valeriy > > I run a lab session like this which uses a simple Visual Basic .NET > application called "Robot Speech". I can mail the code and lab sheet to > anyone interested. > > Regards > > Mark Huckvale > > valeriy shafiro wrote: >> >> Dear list, >> Has anyone used speech concatenation exercises in their teaching of >> acoustic phonetics as a way to illustrate some of the problems of going from >> discrete phonetic symbols to continuous acoustic signals when parsing >> speech? I am thinking of a small project where students would have several >> recorded phrases or words and would need to synthesize a new phrase, based >> on the recordings (using something like Praat or similar waveform editing >> software).The goal wouldn't necessarily be to achieve good quality >> synthesis, but to document the problems that come up and explain them. I >> would appreciate suggestions and pointers, if anyone did something like this >> before. >> Thank you, >> Valeriy > > -- > Mark Huckvale, Director MSc Speech and Hearing Science > Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, University College London > www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk >