Learning articulatory descriptions & IPA symbols; distinguishing English phonemes |
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| University of Iowa Video & Animations of Sounds | Animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German, and Spanish. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for student of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy. |
| Interactive Sagittal Section by Daniel C. Hall |
Displays mid-sagittal sections and IPA transcriptions for user-specified articulations. |
| IPA icharts (2018) |
Interactive IPA chart with descriptions, multiple speakers pronouncing each sound, and copy-pastable unicode font |
| University of Victoria Audio Illustrations of the IPA |
An IPA chart that will play a sound when you click on it (as well as providing the articulatory description of the sound). |
| English Accent Coach | Practice consonants or vowels or pick a few specific ones to focus on. You will hear multiple speakers using the sound(s) you are practicing; click on the one you hear and get immediate feedback. This uses IPA symbols, so you can also use it to practice those. Beware though, that it uses wedge but not schwa and does not distinguish the low back vowel from the mid back lax rounded one (so you cannot use it to practice distinguishing those two sounds; both are labelled /ɑ/). |
| Eight primary cardinal vowels | Recording of Daniel Jones producing the eight primary cardinal vowels |
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Free downloadable software for Macintosh or Windows that allows the user to analyze, synthesize, and manipulate speech. |
| Praat plugin | Free plugin for Praat that makes manipulating recorded speech much easier. |
| Additional Praat scripts | UCLA site with lots of scripts to automate various Praat tasks that I haven't checked out; includes instructions for how to run them up top! |
| Still more Praat scripts | University of Barcelona site with more bunches of scripts that I also haven't checked out. |
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Aids
in transcription of digitized sound files. Besides normal playback features
(Play, FF, Rew, Pause), it also includes features specifically for transcription
such as "walking," which plays a small stretch of the file several
times, then advances to a new piece that overlaps slightly with the previous
one. Originally developed by Eric Breck for MICASE. |
| IPA icharts (2018) | Interactive IPA chart with descriptions, multiple speakers pronouncing each sound, and copy-pastable unicode font |
| Interactive Unicode IPA chart | Allows you to click on symbols in the chart and then select, copy and then paste IPA into any document without needing a special font |
| Voicing, U of Washington Speech & hearing clinic |
Video of the vocal folds in action!!! |
| Slow-motion vocal fold vibration | Slow-motion video of the vocal folds in action so you can actually see what the vibrating looks like |
x-ray movie showing places of articulation |
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| Many sounds... A Course in Phonetics |
x-ray movie showing many different sounds |
| Laryngeal anatomy | Color photos with various parts of the laryngeal system marked |
| UCLA Phonetics Lab Data | An archival record of materials for use with older editions of two of Peter Ladefoged's textbooks.
Sound files can
be accessed by looking up particular languages or particular types
of sounds. |
| UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive | Recordings
of many of the languages that have been investigated by members of the UCLA
Phonetics Lab or have been made available to the lab by other scholars.
Sound files can
also be accessed by looking up particular languages or particular types
of sounds. |
| McGurk effect | The
bimodal nature of speech understanding - a demonstration of the famous
"hearing lips , seeing voices" experiment. Click on McGurk Effect Demo to actually experience the McGurk effect. What
you see affects what you hear! |
| Phoneme restoration effect | Do you hear the /s/? |
| Phoneme restoration
effect, more complex example |
William Knapp's example. Do some sounds work better than others? |
| WHYY the pulse sound illusion |
Another example of how top-down processing can affect our perception. |
| SineWave Synthesis | An
interactive demonstration of time-varying SineWave Synthesis and related
research. This section lets you take part in an online perception test
by listening to the synthesized tokens in the Sentences area. |
| Synthesized speech | Examples
of different types of speech synthesis in a number of languages. |
| Varieties of English | This
website contains information not only on general topics such as phonetics,
phonology, and IPA transcription, but also information on different varieties
of English, such as Southern States English, African-American English, and
British English. |
| Speech Accent Archive | This site examines the speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph. |
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