Subject: Re: manual speech concatenation excersizes for students From: Mark Huckvale <m.huckvale@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:31:21 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>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 -- Mark Huckvale, Director MSc Speech and Hearing Science Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, University College London www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk