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