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Title: Introduction to Speech Production


1
Introduction toSpeech Production
  • Lecture 1

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Phonetics and Phonology
  • Phonetics The physical manifestation of language
    in sound waves.
  • How sounds are articulated
  • How sounds are perceived
  • Phonology The mental representation of sounds.
  • Example

3
Phonetics and Phonology
4
Human Anatomy
5
Human Anatomy
6
Sounds Categorization
  • Manner of articulation
  • closure made by the articulators and the degree
    of the obstruction of the air stream by those
    articulators.
  • Place of articulation
  • Position of the articulators e-g tongue, lips
    etc.
  • Status of glottis
  • Voicing vocal cords are vibrating
  • Voiceless vocal cords do not vibrate

7
Sound Categorization
  • A good link to understand manner and place of
    articulation (only sounds in American English).
  • http//www.uiowa.edu/acadtech/phonetics/english/f
    rameset.html

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Phonology
  • Language dependent subject
  • Few phonological rules
  • Examples
  • Other topics might involve
  • Script to phonemic conversion
  • Stress analysis
  • Syllabification
  • Intonation

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Applications
  • Formants modeling
  • Consonant identification
  • Vowel identification
  • Klatt Synthesizer
  • Searching in multimedia databases
  • Encoding and Speech transmission
  • Speech recognition
  • Speaker identification
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