The source of the Scottish English pronunciations you’ll see in Unilex (and so in the Speech Processing assignment)
Turk et al. – Acoustic Segment Durations in Prosodic Research: A Practical Guide
A guide to segmenting speech using acoustic features (i.e., spectrograms)
Tanner et al. – Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects
Looks at acoustics characteristics of vowels across many dialects of English.
Ladefoged & Johnson – A course in phonetics – Online examples
An Introduction to articulatory phonetics and speech acoustics
Schaedler – Seeing Circles, Sines and Signals
A very nice concise primer on the basic components of digital signal processing with great visual demonstrations.
Wayland (Phonetics) – Chapter 9 – Hearing
Introduces basic concepts in human hearing – it may be useful to read the bits on decibels/loudness and the Mel and Bark scales.
Wayland (Phonetics) – Chapter 5 – Phonemic and Morphophonemic Analysis
An introduction to the concept of phonemes, allophones and some common phonological alternations.
Handbook of phonetic sciences – Ch 20 – Intro to Signal Processing for Speech (Sections 6-7)
Written for a non-technical audience, this gently introduces some key concepts in speech signal processing. Read sections 6-7.
Handbook of phonetic sciences – Ch 20 – Intro to Signal Processing for Speech (Sections 1-5)
Written for a non-technical audience, this gently introduces some key concepts in speech signal processing. Read sections 1-5 (up to and including ‘Fourier Analysis’).
Vaux & Samuels – Explaining vowel systems: dispersion theory vs natural selection
Cross-linguistic distribution of vowel systems
Normal Speech Articulation
X-ray movies of speech
Seeing Speech
Interactive IPA chart
This is the new version. Still under construction.