Re: manual speech concatenation excersizes for students

[Mark Huckvale <m.huckvale@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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Mark Huckvale, Director MSc Speech and Hearing Science
Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, University College London
www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk