An overview of the properties of vowels and consonants
Wayland (Phonetics) – Chapter 7 – Digital Signal Processing
An intuitive introduction to acoustics digital signal processing
Wayland (Phonetics) – Chapter 6 – Basic Acoustics
A concise introduction to acoustics: sounds, resonance, and the source-filter theory
Wayland (Phonetics) – Chapter 1 – Speech Articulation: Manner and Place
A concise introduction to articulatory phonetics
Wayland – Phonetics: A Practical Introduction
This phonetics textbook covers articulatory and acoustic phonetics as well as an introduction to digital signal processing.
Ladefoged & Johnson – A course in phonetics – Chapter 8 – Acoustic phonetics
Links the source-filter model to spectrograms and acoustic analysis of speech.
Ladefoged & Johnson – A course in phonetics – Chapter 2 – Phonology and Phonetic Transcription
Basics of phonology and phonetic transcription. Read this over Speech Processing modules 1 and 2.
Ladefoged & Johnson – A course in phonetics – Chapter 1 – Articulation and Acoustics
An Introduction to articulatory phonetics and speech acoustics
Jurafsky & Martin (2nd ed) – Section 8.3 – Prosodic Analysis
Beyond getting the phones right, we also need to consider other aspects of speech such as intonation and pausing.
Jurafsky & Martin (2nd ed) – Section 8.2 – Phonetic Analysis
Each word in the normalised text needs a pronunciation. Most words will be found in the dictionary, but for the remainder we must predict pronunciation from spelling.
Jurafsky & Martin (2nd ed) – Section 8.1 – Text Normalisation
We need to normalise the input text so that it contains a sequence of pronounceable words.
Jurafsky & Martin – Section 9.8 – Evaluation
In connected speech, three types of error are possible: substitutions, insertions, or deletions of words. It is usual to combine them into a single measure: Word Error Rate.
This is the new version. Still under construction.