Phonetic analysis of speech corpora / Jonathan Harrington.

By: Harrington, Jonathan, 1950-
Publisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010Description: xx, 403 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9781405199575 (pbk.); 1405199571 (pbk.); 9781405141697; 1405141697Subject(s): Speech processing systems | Phonetics | Speech -- ResearchDDC classification: 414.8 LOC classification: P95.3 | .H37 2010Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
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.
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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.

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