Harrington, Jonathan, 1950-

Phonetic analysis of speech corpora / Jonathan Harrington. - Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010. - xx, 403 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-393) and index.

Relationship between Machine Readable (MRPA) and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for Australian English. --
Relationship between Machine Readable (MRPA) and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for German. --
Downloadable Speech Databases Used in this Book. --
Preface. --
Notes on Downloading Software. --
1. Using Speech Corpora in Phonetics Research. --
1.1 The Place of Corpora in the Phonetic Analysis of Speech. --
1.2 Existing Speech Corpora for Phonetic Analysis. --
1.3 Designing Your Own Corpus. --
1.4 Summary and Structure of the Book. --
2. Some Tools for Building and Querying Annotated Speech Databases. --
2.1 Overview. --
2.2 Getting Started with Existing Speech Databases. --
2.3 Interface between Praat and Emu. --
2.4 Interface to R. --
2.5 Creating a New Speech Database: From Praat to Emu to R. --
2.6 A First Look at the Template File. --
2.7 Summary. --
2.8 Questions. --
3. Applying Routines for Speech Signal Processing. 3.1 Introduction. --
3.2 Calculating, Displaying, and Correcting Formants. --
3.3 Reading the Formants into R. --
3.4 Summary. --
3.5 Questions. --
3.6 Answers. --
4. Querying Annotation Structures. --
4.1 The Emu Query Tool, Segment Tiers, and Event Tiers. --
4.2 Extending the Range of Queries: Annotations from the Same Tier. --
4.3 Inter-tier Links and Queries. --
4.4 Entering Structured Annotations with Emu. --
4.5 Conversion of a Structured Annotation to a Praat TextGrid. --
4.6 Graphical User Interface to the Emu Query Language. --
4.7 Re-querying Segment Lists. --
4.8 Building Annotation Structures Semi-automatically with Emu-Tcl. --
4.9 Branching Paths. --
4.10 Summary. --
4.11 Questions. --
4.12 Answers. --
5. An Introduction to Speech Data Analysis in R: A Study of an EMA Database. --
5.1 EMA Recordings and the ema5 Database. --
5.2 Handling Segment Lists and Vectors in Emu-R. --
5.3 An Analysis of Voice-Onset Time. --
5.4 Intergestural Coordination and Ensemble Plots. --
5.5 Intragestural Analysis. --
5.6 Summary. --
5.7 Questions. --
5.8 Answers. 6. Analysis of Formants and Formant Transitions. --
6.1 Vowel Ellipses in the F2ÍF1 Plane. --
6.2 Outliers. --
6.3 Vowel Targets. --
6.4 Vowel Normalization. --
6.5 Euclidean Distances. --
6.6 Vowel Undershoot and Formant Smoothing. --
6.7 F2 Locus, Place of Articulation, and Variability. --
6.8 Questions. --
6.9 Answers. --
7. Electropalatography. --
7.1 Palatography and Electropalatography. --
7.2 An Overview of Electropalatography in Emu-R. --
7.3 EPG Data-Reduced Objects. --
7.4 Analysis of EPG Data. --
7.5 Summary. --
7.6 Questions. --
7.7 Answers. --
8. Spectral Analysis. --
8.1 Background to Spectral Analysis. --
8.2 Spectral Average, Sum, Ratio, Difference, Slope. --
8.3 Spectral Moments. --
8.4 The Discrete Cosine Transformation. --
8.5 Questions. --
8.6 Answers. --
9. Classification. --
9.1 Probability and Bayes" Theorem. --
9.2 Classification: Continuous Data. --
9.3 Calculating Conditional Probabilities. --
9.4 Calculating Posterior Probabilities. --
9.5 Two Parameters: The Bivariate Normal Distribution and Ellipses. --
9.6 Classification in Two Dimensions. --
9.7 Classifications in Higher Dimensional Spaces. --
9.8 Classifications in Time. --
9.9 Support Vector Machines. --
9.10 Summary. --
9.11 Questions. --
9.12 Answers. --
References. --
Index.

9781405199575 (pbk.) 1405199571 (pbk.) 9781405141697 1405141697

2010279267

GBA728837 bnb GBA997986 bnb

013715932 Uk 015386546 Uk


Speech processing systems.
Phonetics.
Speech--Research.

P95.3 / .H37 2010

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