An introduction to EmuR

Jonathan Harrington & Johanna Cronenberg

Note: if you wish to knit .Rmd into .html yourself, you will need to create a folder with various images called img in the same directory from which you are running your project (in the same directory where testsample and emu_databases are stored as described here). A zipped version of the img folder for this purpose is here.

0. Setting things up to use the Emu Speech database management system on your computer. Please read this before the start of the course!

1. A schematic overview of the Emu Speech Database Management System

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2. First steps in using the Emu Speech Database Management System

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3. Creating an Emu database from .wav files Rmd, html

4. Converting a Praat TextGrid collection Rmd, html

5. Forced alignment in EmuR Rmd, html

6. Configuring EmuR for ToBI annotations Rmd, html

7. The Emu query language Rmd, html

Some questions Rmd, html

Some answers html

8. Αn introduction to signal processing in EmuR Rmd, html

An exercise: pdf

A proposed solution Rmd, html

9. Automatic formant tracking and manual correction Rmd, html

10. Vowel normalisation and vowel distances Rmd, html

11. The discrete cosine transformation Rmd, html

12. Spectral processing of speech Rmd, html

13. Parameterising spectra with the DCT Rmd, html