Unit 1: Acoustics

Goals:

• Illustration of corpus creation procedure:
  1. Pre-recording phase: corpus design.
  2. Recording phase: digital techniques.
  3. Post-recording phase: transcription, annotation, lexicon construction.
• Overview of acoustic properties of speech signals.

Further information:

• The `Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems' contains extensive information on corpus creation.
• Notes from my earlier course on acoustic phonetics.
• More information about applications can be found on our demo page Linguistik und Visualisierung in der Sprachverarbeitung.
• Speech science and technology research and development sites.
• And of course the Free Speech Journal.