TO PETER LADEFOGED!!
In honor of your 80th birthday,
Peter, phoneticians have prepared a special birthday greeting for you
using a variety of instruments.
From
USC: Real-time MRI with synchronous noise-cancelled audio
from Dani Byrd and Shri Narayanan (with K. Nayak, J. Nielsen,
E. Bresch)
Singing movie
(large file takes a moment to load)
English movie
Tamil movie
Hindi movie
The frame rate for all movies is 23.8
frames-per-second (fps), using a sliding-window reconstruction based
on the raw data acquired at 8.3 fps.
From
the UCLA Phonetics Lab: A collection
from Pat Keating, Bruce Hayes, Sun-Ah Jun, Barbara Blankenship,
Henry Tehrani, and Christina Esposito
(with
C. Vicenik)
UCLA
Overview
Pitch-tracking
and ToBI from Sun-Ah Jun (Sun-Ah, Tim, Sahyang)
must be
downloaded and opened in Powerpoint
Syllable
Scramble from Christina
(must be download
for PowerPoint
or html Explorer
only)
Electropalatography
movie
of Pat, Bruce, and Barbara
Electroglottography movie of Henry
From University
of Manitoba: from Rob Hagiwara
Spectrogram Reading
Collected
by Sandy Disner
Synthetic speech from text-to-speech
engines
DECtalk
(Thanks to Corine Bickley)
(specifically "Perfect Paul," which was modeled on Dennis
Klatt himself)
Orator
(Thanks to Marian Macchi)
Acapela
formerly Elan (Thanks to Andrew Richards)
Neospeech (Thanks
to Richard Metzler)
ATT (Thanks to Ann Syrdal)
Other Languages:
Alain_french, Juliette_french,
Alberto_LatAm,
Rosa_span,
Klara_german,
Reiner_german,
Englishes:
Anjali_INDeng,
Audrey_UKeng,
Charles_UKeng,
Crystal_USeng,
Mike_USeng,
Rich_USeng
from Tim Bunnell, of the Speech Research Laboratory of the
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and the University of Delaware in
Wilmington--completely automated unit concatenation synthesis from
recordings of people with ALS: tb_pl4, tb_pl1
Apple (Thanks to Caroline Henton) fem male
From University
of Hawaii: Amy Schafer and Victoria Anderson
Eye-tracking movie (Quicktime,
Webstreaming)
From Haskins
Laboratories: Louis Goldstein and Mark Tiede (with Carmen Gao
and Leonardo Oliveira)
Magnetometer movie (3D AG500) (
Alternate remote site.)
Tongue receivers include: 3 sagittal 2 parasagittal receivers
From UCLA
Bureau of Glottal Affairs: Jody Kreiman and Bruce Gerratt
Stroboscopy movie
From University
of Washington: Richard Wright (with Monica Wright)
Cochleagram movie
(requires flash)
From University
of Maryland: Maureen Stone, Melissa Epstein, and the Gang
Ultrasound movie