The source of the Scottish English pronunciations you’ll see in Unilex (and so in the Speech Processing assignment)
Lyons – Understanding Digital Signal Processing
A great introduction to digital signal processing, including the maths!
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 – 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 – Online examples
An Introduction to articulatory phonetics and speech acoustics
Ladefoged & Johnson – A course in phonetics – Chapter 1 – Articulation and Acoustics
An Introduction to articulatory phonetics and speech acoustics
Taylor – Section 12.4 – Linear-Prediction Analysis
An overview of the background and maths behind linear-prediction methods for modelling the vocal tract as a filter.
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 1 – Speech Articulation: Manner and Place
A concise introduction to articulatory phonetics
Jurafsky & Martin (3rd Ed) – Hidden Markov models
An overview of Hidden Markov Models, the Viterbi algorithm, and the Baum-Welch algorithm
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.
This is the new version. Still under construction.