
Romic Alphabet (Henry Sweet 1845 1910): It is the directancestor of the modern IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).The alphabet differs from previously proposed spelling reformsby favoring using the Roman alphabet and the original Latinsound values. Visible Speech (Alexander Melville Bell 1819 1905): the firstnotation system for the sounds of speech independent of aparticular language or dialect. Pronunciation as possible and ignores as few details aspossible.īroad transcription (or phonemic transcription): ignores asmany details as possible, capturing only enough aspects of apronunciation to show how that word differs from other. narrow transcription Narrow transcription: captures as many aspects of a specific Phonemes and allophones are language-specific.īroad vs. The allophones of aphoneme form a set of sounds that do not change themeaning of a word and are all very similar to one another. Writing a language down in a systematic and unambiguousway.Īllophone: a variant of a phoneme. Phonemes and allophones Phoneme: one of a set of abstract units that can be used for The anatomy of the larynx and vocal cords Sagittal section of the vocal tract (Techmer 1880) How are speech sounds received and perceived? She sells seashells on the seashore and the seashells that shesells are seashells Im sure (consonants and vowels).

The acoustic properties of speech sounds. How do we classify and transcribe speech sounds? LING 520 Introduction to Phonetics I, Fall 2008Īrticulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, auditoryphonetics.
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Microphone conversation Microphone speech Most speech files have two corresponding Praat TextGrid files: an orthographic sentence/utterance transcription and output from forced alignment.Īpplication(s): Linguistic analysis, phonetics, psycholinguistics, speaker identification, speech recognition Speaker metadata is included in the documentation for this release.Īudio files are presented as 16kHz, 16-bit single channel, flac compressed wav files.

Speakers (101 female, 101 male) were recruited from the UCLA university community and represented a variety of language backgrounds. Participants took part in six different tasks: vowel sounds, reading sentences, giving instructions, neutral conversation, happy conversation, a phone conversation, annoyed conversation, and responding to a video. This corpus was designed to sample variability in speaking within individual speakers and across a large number of speakers. UCLA Speaker Variability Database was developed by UCLA Speech Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory and is comprised of approximately 34 hours of English speech and orthographic transcripts.
