Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora

Jonathan Harrington

Database examples


Chapter 1 Using speech corpora in phonetics research

andosl

Audio and formant data of 200 utterances from 2 male speakers of read sentences of Australian English with prosodic, phonetic and intonational annotation. Source: Millar et al (1997); Millar et al (1994).

Chapter 2 Some tools for building and querying labelling speech databases

first

Audio and spectra data of 5 isolated words in carrier sentence of German with phonetic annotation spoken by one male speaker.

Chapter 3 Applying routines for speech signal processing

aetobi

Audio data of 17 utterances of various speaker of American English with word, intonational and break annotations. This is a fragment of the AE-TOBI database. Source: Beckman et al (2005); Pitrelli et al (1994); Silverman et al (1992)

second

Audio and spectra data of isolated words in carrier sentence of German with phonetic annotation for one male and one female speaker.

Chapter 4 Querying annotation structures

ae

Audio, spectra and formants data of 7 read sentences of Australian English by one male speaker; with prosodic, phonetic and tonal annotation. Source: Millar et al (1997); Millar et al (1994)

gt

Audio and f0 data of 9 utterances of various speakers of German with word, break, and intonational annotations taken from various sources.

kielread

Audio and formant data of 200 read sentences of German spoken by one male speaker and one female speaker; with phonetic annotation. Source: Simpson (1998), Simpson et al (1997).

mora

Audio data of one utterance of read japanese from one female speaker with phonetic annotation.

Chapter 5 An introduction to speech data analysis in R: a study of an EMA database

ema / ema5

Audio and EMA data of 20 read sentences of Standard German spoken by one female speaker; with word, phonetic, tongue-tip and tongue-body annotation. Source: Bombien et al (2007)

Chapter 6 Analysis of formants and formant transitions

kielread

Audio and formant data of 200 read sentences of German of one male speaker and one female speaker; with phonetic annotation. Source: Simpson (1998), Simpson et al (1997).

Chapter 7 Electropalatography

epgassim

Audio and EPG data of 60 isolated words of Australian English from one female speaker; with word and phonetic annotation. Source: Stephenson & Harrington (2002); Stephenson (2003)

epgcoutts

Audio and EPG data of two read speech utterances of Australian English spoken by one female speaker with word annotations (taken from a passage in Hewlett & Shockey, 1992).

epgdorsal

Audio, EPG and formant data of 45 isolated words of German spoken by one male speaker; with word and phonetic annotation. Source: Ambrazaitis & John (2004)

epgpolish

Audio and EPG data of 40 read sentences of Polish spoken by one male speaker; with word and phonetic annotation. Source: Guzik & Harrington (2007)

Chapter 8 Spectral analysis.

timetable

Audio data of 5 timetable enquiries in German from one male speaker with phonetic annotation.

gerplosives

Audio files and spectra of 72 isolated words in carrier sentence of German with phonetic annotation spoken by one male speaker.

Chapter 9 Classification

stops

Audio and formant data of 470 isolated words in carrier sentence of German spoken by 3 male and 4 female speaker with phonetic annotation.

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