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’).
Peterson & Barney – Control Methods Used in a Study of the Vowels
Examines the performance of both speakers and listeners. A classic paper!
Vaux & Samuels – Explaining vowel systems: dispersion theory vs natural selection
Cross-linguistic distribution of vowel systems
Ladefoged & Johnson – A course in phonetics – Chapter 8 – Acoustic phonetics
Links the source-filter model to spectrograms and acoustic analysis of speech.
Introduction to the IPA from the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association
Describes the aims of the International Phonetic Alphabet and its various uses.
Normal Speech Articulation
X-ray movies of speech
Seeing Speech
Interactive IPA chart
Jurafsky & Martin – Section 4.3 – Training and Test Sets
As we should already know: in machine learning it is essential to evaluate a model on data that it was not learned from.
