• Speech Analysis Format
• Speech Analyzer For Mac Os
• Parts Of Speech Analyzer

Analysis of Speeches. Studying the speeches of others is an excellent way to think critically about your own public speaking. Below you will find several speech analyses that I have done. For each speech, I note what I like and make suggestions for improvement. I encourage you to form your own opinion. Mac, Windows, Unix Speech Analyzer. This is another free program for the calculation and display of pitch tracks and spectrograms, with the capability of storing phonetic annotations. With speech analyzer you can transcribe speech files phonetically with IPA, playback speech at a slower speed, or add phonemic, orthographic, tone and gloss. Download speech analyzer for pc for free. Multimedia tools downloads - Speech Analyzer by SIL International and many more programs are available for instant and free download.

Eines per a l’anàlisi acústica i la transcripció de la parla

«ANVIL is a free video annotation tool, developed by Michael Kipp. It offers multi-layered annotation based on a user-defined coding scheme. During coding the user can see color-coded elements on multiple tracks in time-alignment. Some special features are cross-level links, non-temporal objects, timepoint tracks, coding agreement analysis, 3D viewing of motion capture data and a project tool for managing whole corpora of annotation files. Originally developed for gesture research in 2000, ANVIL is now being used in many research areas including human-computer interaction, linguistics, ethology, anthropology, psychotherapy, embodied agents, computer animation and oceanography.

ANVIL can import data from phonetic tools like PRAAT which allow precise and comfortable speech transcription (see my video tutorial). Anvil can display waveform and pitch contour. Anvil's data files are XML-based. Exported tables can be used for analysis in statistical toolkits like SPSS or Statistica. The coming version will also be able to import ELAN files. ANVIL is written in Java and runs on Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms.»

«A tool for building corpora of linked transcripts and digitised media.

Audiamus instantiates the links to digitised media. It requires no segmentation of the sound/video file. Currently there is no limit to the size of the media file or the number of transcripts. Each ’card’ of the current model represents a single transcript (typically a complete side of a cassette). Time-aligned transcripts, as produced for example by SoundIndex or Transcriber are the input for Audiamus.

The transcripts in Audiamus are plain text and can be edited, as can the timecodes. Thus the data in Audiamus is the master copy of the transcript that is improved incrementally with use. To avoid the problem of data being locked up in proprietary formats there is a mass export function that dumps all linked text and timecodes to plain text files, or to whatever format the user selects.»

«CSL is the most comprehensive PC-based system available for speech acquisition, analysis, editing, and playback. An integrated hardware/software system, the versatile platform is recognized internationally by both clinicians and researchers for its unique combination of sophistication, flexibility, and ease-of-use.

The system’s robust hardware meets the rigorous specifications required by speech professionals and researchers. It contains an external module for high-fidelity data acquisition (>86 dB dynamic range), DSP circuitry for real-time processing/display of speech parameters needed for therapy applications, and CD-quality playback for critical listening tasks. The core software is fully integrated with the hardware. It contains a rich set of easily applied analysis and editing features and is complemented by 15 application specific (e.g., clinical, linguistic, etc.) software modules and databases.

Built on Kay’s decades of experience in speech analysis, the CSL accommodates the many and varied needs of speech/voice clinicians, phoneticians, speech scientists, phoniatricians, and otolaryngologists. CSL was developed jointly with Speech Technology Research (STR) of Victoria, B.C., Canada

Current CSL options include:

• Synthesis Program
• Multi-Dimensional Voice Program (MDVP)
• Voice Range Profile
• Sona-Match
• Delayed Auditory Feedback
• Real-Time Spectrogram
• CSL-Pitch1
• Phonetic Database
• Palatometer Database
• IPA Transcription Tutorial
• Disordered Voice Database
• EGG Processing
• Motor Speech Profile (MSP)
• Signal Enhancement in Noise
• Auditory Perception Program and Database (APP)
• Condenser Microphone
• DAT Interface and Four-Channel Input
• Direct-to-Disk
• Programmer’s Kit»

«The CSLU Toolkit has been supporting research, development and learning activities for spoken language systems since January, 1996. It is designed to support a wide range of research activities, including data capture and analysis, corpus development, research in multilingual recognition and understanding, dialogue design, speech synthesis speaker recognition and language recognition, among others. In addition, the Toolkit provides easy to use graphical authoring tools (CSLUrp) for rapid prototyping of spoken language systems for useful applications. Finally, the toolkit is designed to provide a good environment for learning about spoken language technology. The Toolkit has been used to teach short courses, and students taking these courses have produced novel and useful spoken language systems, as described on our short course page.

The Toolkit currently runs on Unix platforms which have Tcl/Tk (freely available).»

«Note: as of November 2019, Dolmen is superseded by Phonometrica.

Dolmen is a free, open-source software toolbox for data analysis in linguistics. It offers a user-friendly interface to manage, annotate and query language corpora. It is particularly well suited for dealing with time-aligned data. The main features it offers are:

• Project management: organize files into projects and manage versions.
• Extensible metadata: files can be annotated with properties, which allow you to sort and organize your data.
• Interaction with Praat: Dolmen can read TextGrid files and open files directly in Praat.
• Powerful search engine: build and save complex queries; search patterns across tiers.
• Standard-based: Dolmen files are encoded in XML and Unicode.
• Scripting engine: Dolmen can be extended with plugins written in JavaScript/JSON.

Dolmen runs on all major platforms (Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux) and is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).»

«With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of textual annotations to audio and/or video recordings. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Annotations can be created on multiple layers, called tiers. Tiers can be hierarchically interconnected. An annotation can either be time-aligned to the media or it can refer to other existing annotations. The content of annotations consists of Unicode text and annotation documents are stored in an XML format (EAF).

Main features and characteristics of ELAN:

• provides several ways to view the annotations, each view is connected to and synchronized with the media timeline
• supports creation of multiple tiers and tier hierarchies
• supports Controlled Vocabularies
• allows linking of up to 4 video files with an annotation document
• media support
• builds on existing, native media frameworks, like Windows Media Player, QuickTime or VLC
• support for audio and video formats depends on operating system, high performance media playback can usually be achieved
• technical
• written in the Java programming language
• distributions available for Windows, macOS and Linux
• open source, the sources are available under a GPL 3 license»

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. (2019). ELAN (Versió 5.8) [Programa informàtic]. The Language Archive. https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. (2019). ELAN (Versió 5.8) [Programa informàtic]. The Language Archive. https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan

«GIPOS stands for Graphical Interactive Processing of Speech. It is an integrated speech processing program. It provides the tools you need to create, view, play and manipulate waveforms, spectrograms and other forms of speech data. You’ll find:

• fast spectrogram displays
• real-time spectrum displays
• on-line pitch measurements (SHS, PDT)
• capabilities for labeling of waveform files
• modification of pitch and durations contours using PIOLA, PSOLA or LPC
• LPC-parametric file manipulations
• waveform editing (cut, copy, paste, add, scale, fade, reverse, etc.)
• filtering (Low-pass, high-pass, bandpass, band stop, etc.)
• waveform recording with real-time sample-rate conversion option
• sound compression (PCM, ADPCM, CELP, VSELP, LPC, MPEG)
• simultaneous processing of multiple files (up to 15)
• synchronous zoom & scroll in all charts
• high level of interaction
• different tasks can be performed in parallel, e.g.: while making a recording, turn on spectrogram display, zoom-in on a specific region, play and save a segment of the recorded part all at the same time iconic help cues, context dependent menu’s and other graphical user-interface features
• command shell for more complex operations and for running in batch mode
• undo/redo for the last 1000 operations
• user macro definitions for function keys
• all key combinations are user configurable
• users can write their own programs to extend the standard functionality

GIPOS runs on SiliconGraphics and SUN workstations under Unix and on PCs under MS-Windows95 and Linux.»

«The main scopes of application include:

• Phonetics
• Phoniatrics
• Logopedics
• Audiology
• Speech Analysis
• Sound Analysis
• Singing Analysis
• Music Analysis
• Music Instrument Analysis
• Research on Children’s Crying
• Research on Lung Sounds and Heart Sounds
• Good Radio Voice Analysis
• Sound Editing

All the analysis programs have been written using a machine language, because in this way ISA is many times faster than using a high level language. ISA is the unique software in the world. The use of ISA is very simple. All the analyses have their own windows. All the functions of the ISA are controlled by the mouse. All the displays can be listened to. ISA-software is running in Apple Macintosh computer.»

«LaBB-CAT is a browser-based linguistics research tool that stores audio or video recordings, text transcripts, and other annotations.

Annotations of various types can be automatically generated or manually added.

The transcripts and annotations can be searched for particular text or regular expressions. The search results, or entire transcripts, can be viewed or saved in a variety of formats, and the related parts of the recordings can be played or opened in acoustic analysis software, all directly through the web-browser.

• Storage of Media and Transcripts
• Automatic Annotation
• Manual Annotation
• Search»

«lingWAVES has become one of the most used system for professional voice and speech analysis, biofeedback and documentation in the last years. A combination of standard and new technology analysis and processing together with an easy handling are the key features of this unique system.

lingWAVES module puzzle: The system consists of different modules managed by the lingWAVES basis user interface. A client manager allows a patient/client based analysis and documentation with the benefit of comparing and tracking results over time.

The modular character of lingWAVES allows to offer different module combinations (suites) so that a wide range of professional users can use the system, starting from speech and language therapy, over Otolaryngology /ENT up to services for professional singers and speakers. You can also upgrade a lingWAVES module at any time.

System Requirements: Windows 10 ( Mac OS with Boot Camp and installed Windows OS 10).»

«The Signal Processing Toolbox provides a rich, customizable framework for digital signal processing (DSP). Built on a solid foundation of filter design and spectral analysis techniques, the toolbox contains powerful tools for algorithm development, signal and linear system analysis, and time-series data modeling. The toolbox is useful in applications such as speech and audio processing, communications, geophysics, real-time control, finance, radar, and medicine.

Signal and linear system models:

• Digital and analog filter design, analysis, and implementation
• FFT, DCT, and other transforms
• Spectrum estimation and statistical signal processing
• Parametric time-series modeling
• Waveform generation
• Windowing»

«MelAn is a tool for the automatic stylisation, annotation and modelling of F0 contours. It is made of a set of Praat and R scripts that perform the tasks of F0 stylisation, labelling and modelling. They can be run on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. It has been conceived for the automatic processing and analysis of large corpora.

The tool applies automatically the framework and methodology for the analysis of F0 contours proposed in Garrido (1996, 2001). This procedure is intended to obtain a symbolic representation of F0 contours which captures their perceptually relevant features, in the sense that it should be possible to build a ‘synthetic’ contour from the symbolic representation almost identical to the original contour from a perceptual point of view.

MelAn is available for public download.»

«PCquirer & Macquirer features include:

• The same «LOOK-N-FEEL» between PCquirer & Macquirer with complete file interchangeability.
• Complete waveform editing for single and multi-channel data.(data captured by X16 series)
• PCquirer reads CSL, WAVES file formats directly.
• Macquirer reads CSL, AIFF file formats directly.
• Unmatched, high quality spectrograms.
• FFT/LPC, Intensity.
• Pitch records, only to be reproduced by workstation powered systems.
• Complete labeling systems on main, spectrogram and pitch views.
• Automatic Log Entry system with full online editing capability for addition of comments and other experiment related notes.
• Direct printing onto high resolution laser printers as high as 2400 DPI.
• Ability to save each window as bitmap(pc) & PICT(Mac) files for direct entry into word processors.
• Fully complies with the Windows(WIN95/98/NT) and Mac(Power PC) operating system environments.
• Full online help files for both PCquirer, and Macquirer.»

«Phon is a software program that greatly facilitates a number of tasks related to the analysis of transcript-based and acoustically-measured speech data. Built to support research in phonological development (including babbling), second language acquisition, and phonological disorders, Phon can also be used for virtually all types of phonological investigations (e.g. loanword phonology, fieldwork in phonology, sociolinguistic studies). Phon supports multimedia data linkage, unit segmentation (e.g. utterance, word), multiple-blind transcription, automatic labeling of data (features, syllabification), and systematic comparisons between target (model) and actual (produced) phonological forms. Phon is also equipped with many facilities for data analysis, including query methods for phonology (e.g. phones, features, syllables, ...) as well as acoustic data.

Versió 2 of Phon brings together two of the most important areas of empirical investigation in the area of child phonology, as it integrates transcript-based analyses of phonological data with the facilities for acoustic analysis provided by Praat. With this new version of Phon, and in addition to the functions listed above, the user can now:

• Import existing TextGrids into Phon sessions
• generate textgrids from existing phon records
• visualize textgrids directly into phon
• send textgrids to praat for editing in a single click
• run speech analysis functions directly from the phon query menu
• export speech measurement data for further analysis

All of these functions are accessible through a user-friendly graphical interface. Databases managed within Phon can also be queried using a powerful search system adapted for the needs of the phonologist. This software program works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux platforms and is compliant with the CHILDES (TalkBank) XML data format. Phon is being made freely available to the community as open-source software. Phon facilitates data exchange among researchers and is currently used for the elaboration of the shared PhonBank database, designed to support empirical needs of research in all areas of phonology and phonological development.»

Rose, Y. i MacWhinney, B. (2014). The PhonBank project: Data and software-assisted methods for the study of phonology and phonological development. A J. Durand, U. Gut i G. Kristoffersen (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of corpus phonology (p. 308–401). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199571932.013.023

Rose, Y. i MacWhinney, B. (2014). The PhonBank project: Data and software-assisted methods for the study of phonology and phonological development. A J. Durand, U. Gut i G. Kristoffersen (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of corpus phonology (p. 308–401). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199571932.013.023

«PHONÉDIT is a signal editor that permits to record, edit, labelize, and analyse various types of signals. This software is dedicated to speech analysis. However it has the capability to analyse also aerodynamic parameters, electro-palatographic frames and kynesiographic movements.

It reads and writes the most common kind of file formats like MS-WAVE, CSL, Signalyze, ASCII, or raw binaries.

Many functions are applicable on the edited signals:

• FFT: fast Fourier transform analysis, synchronous with the cursors movements.
• Spectrogram: 3D spectral representation of a signal. Supports narrow and wide band analysis.
• F0 detection: two methods are proposed for extracting the fundamental frequency from a speech signal. The comb algorithm based on a spectral analysis, and the AMDF algorithm based on a temporal analysis.
• LPC: Linear Prediction Coding, for formantic studies.
• RMS intensity: dB or linear, selection of the integration time.
• Statistics: mean, standard deviation, Jitter/Shimmer extraction

It runs with recent Windows operating system on PC.

PHONEDIT Signaix is free of charge and can be downloaded.»

«Phonometrica is a free, open-source software platform for the annotation and analysis of speech corpora. It offers a user-friendly interface to manage, annotate, analyze and query language corpora. It is particularly well suited for dealing with time-aligned data. The main features it offers are:

• Project management: organize files into projects.
• Sound visualization and annotation: visualize and annotate speech sounds on multiple layers.
• Extensible metadata: annotate files with properties, which allow you to sort and organize your corpus.
• Queries: build and save simple or complex queries; search strings or patterns across layers.
• Data analysis: hypothesis testing, linear, logistic and Poisson regression.
• Scripting engine: Phonometrica can be configured and extended with an easy-to-use scripting language and JSON files.
• Standard-based: Phonometrica files are encoded in XML and Unicode.
• Interaction with Praat: Phonometrica can read and write TextGrid files and open files directly in Praat.

Phonometrica runs on all major platforms (Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux) and is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.»

Eychenne, J. i Courdès-Murphy, L. (2019). Phonometrica (Versió 0.7.5) [Programa informàtic]. http://www.phonometrica-ling.org

• «PitchWorks is the main tool for any intonation studies, with very easy user interface.
• It uses two methods of pitch extraction, Cepstral and Autocorrelation.
• PitchWorks is designed for up to 10 levels of tiers for TOBI style labeling, with virtually unlimited number of labels in each tier.
• Labels can be of different fonts, colors or sizes.
• The tier information can be extracted to a log file by click of mouse.
• Each screen can be saved as a bitmap for direct entry into word document.
• Pitch Works reads many different file types of any size.
• 10 levels of tiers
• Look & feel with file interchangeability between PC & Mac
• TOBI style labeling
• Capable of reading many different file types
• FFT, LPC, Intensity, Spectrogram, Formant tracking, … Cepstral and Autocorrelation. pitch extraction methods.
• Synchronized cursor between windows. Automatic data logging. Direct printing from every window. Save each window as a bitmap (PC) & PICT (Mac) for imports to word documents. Window 2K/XP and Mac OSX compatible.»

«Speech analysis:

• spectral analysis (spectrograms)
• pitch analysis
• formant analysis
• intensity analysis
• jitter, shimmer, voice breaks
• cochleagram
• excitation pattern

Speech synthesis:

• from pitch, formant, and intensity
• articulatory synthesis
• Klatt acoustic synthesis

Listening experiments:

• identification and discrimination tests

Labelling and segmentation:

• label intervals and time points on multiple tiers
• use phonetic alphabet
• use sound files up to 2 gigabytes (3 hours)

Speech manipulation:

• change pitch and duration contours
• filtering

Learning algorithms:

• feedforward neural networks
• discrete and stochastic Optimality Theory

Statistics:

• multidimensional scaling
• principal component analysis
• discriminant analysis

Graphics:

• high quality for your articles and thesis
• produce Encapsulated PostScript files
• integrated mathematical and phonetic symbols

Programmability:

• easy programmable scripting language
• communicate with other programs
• (the sendpraat source code)
• create hypertext manuals with sound I/O

Portability:

• machine-independent binary files
• read and write many sound and other file types

Configurability:

• grow or shrink menus
• save prefs for fonts, views, sound devices

Macintosh, Windows, Linux, Chromebook, Raspberry Pi (FreeBSD, SGI, Solaris, HPUX)»

Boersma, P. i Weenink, D. (2019). Praat: Doing phonetics by computer (Versió 6.0.50) [Programa informàtic]. University of Amsterdam. http://www.praat.org

Scripts per a Praat

Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria. (2019). Software and resources. https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/linguistics/resources/software/index.php

Dellwo, V. (2018, 13 d’agost). Material. Institut für Computerlinguistik, Universität Zürich. https://www.cl.uzh.ch/de/people/team/phonetics/vdellw/software.html

DiCanio, C. (2017). Scripts. https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cdicanio/scripts.html

Felty, R. (s. d.). Scripts. robfelty.com. https://robfelty.com/academic/praat-scripts

Kawahara, S. (2010). Scripts. http://user.keio.ac.jp/~kawahara/resource.html

Lennes, M. (2017, 8 de març). SpeCT - Speech Corpus Toolkit for Praat (v1.0.0). First release on GitHub (Version 1.0.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.375923

Lœvenbruck, H. (s. d.). Praat scripts. Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, Université Grenoble Alpes. https://lpnc.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Helene-Loevenbruck?lang=fr#Tools

Remijsen, B. (2011, 13 de desembre). Bert Remijsen’s Praat scripts. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~bert/praatscripts.html

Sadowsky, S. (2019). Recursos de Praat. http://sadowsky.cl/praat-es.html

Toscano, J. (s. d.). Praat script archives. https://sites.google.com/site/praatscripts/

Vicenik, C. (2009, agost). Praat script resources. The UCLA Phonetics Lab. http://phonetics.linguistics.ucla.edu/facilities/acoustic/praat.html

Winn, M. (2019). Praat scripts. http://mattwinn.com/praat.html

Manuals, guies i adjuda sobre la utilització de Praat

Praat Users List a Groups.io

«Prosogram is a tool for the analysis and transcription of pitch variations in speech. Its stylization simulates the auditory perception of pitch by the listener. A key element in tonal perception is the segmentation of speech into syllable-sized elements, resulting from changes in the spectrum (sound timbre) and intensity. The tool also provides measurements of prosodic features for individual syllables (such as duration, pitch, pitch movement direction and size), as well as prosodic properties of longer stretches of speech (such as speech rate, proportion of silent pauses, pitch range, and pitch trajectory). The tool can easily interact with other software tools. It is used as the first step in automatic phonological transcription of intonation, the detection of sentence stress and intonation boundaries.

Processing steps:

• Calculate acoustic parameters: F0, intensity, voicing (V/UV).
• Obtain a segmentation into units of the types indicated above. Select the relevant units (e.g. vowels, syllables). Select the voiced portion of these units, that has sufficient intensity/loudness (using difference thresholds relative to the local peak).
• Stylize the F0 of the selected time intervals.
• Determine pitch range used in speech fragment. Plot stylized pitch and some annotation tiers (text, phonetic transcription). Use a musical (semitone) scale and add calibration lines at every 2 ST for easy interpretation of pitch intervals.

The system is implemented as a Praat script.»

«SegProso is a Praat-based tool for the automatic segmentation of speech corpora into prosodic units:

• syllables
• stress groups (SG)
• intonation groups (IG)
• breath groups (BG)

SegProso is currently available for Catalan, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and French. Other languages can be added with minimum or none adaptation of the scripts.

The tool uses a full rule and knowledge-based approach to perform the boundary detection tasks.

SegProso is available for public download.»

«SFS 4/Windows is a free computing environment for PCs for conducting research into the nature of speech. It comprises software tools, file and data formats, subroutine libraries, graphics, special programming languages and tutorial documentation. It performs standard operations such as acquisition, replay, display and labelling, spectrographic and formant analysis and fundamental frequency estimation. It comes with a large body of ready made tools for signal processing, synthesis and recognition, as well as support for your own software development.

Analysis programs:

• Acquisition and replay
• Waveform processing
• Filtering
• Signal editing
• Spectrographic analysis
• Resampling and speed/pitch changing
• Laryngographic processing
• Fundamental frequency estimation (from SP or from LX)
• Formant frequency estimation & formant synthesis
• Filterbank analysis/synthesis
• Automatic annotation
• Spectral cross-sections
• Waveform envelope
• HTK Markov Modelling Toolkit 1.2

SFS is not public domain software, its intellectual property is owned by Mark Huckvale, University College London. However SFS may be used and copied without charge as long as the program remains unmodified and continues to carry this copyright notice.

Operating environments:
WIN32: Microsoft Visual C, WIN32 API. Windows 95/98/NT/2000.
Unix: GNU gcc compiler and X-Windows. SunOs, Solaris, Linux, etc.
MSDOS: Protected mode 32-bit with GNU compiler DJGPP. »

«RTGRAM is a free program for displaying a real-time scrolling spectrographic display of an audio signal. With RTGRAM you can monitor the spectro-temporal characteristics of sounds being played into the computer’s microphone or line input ports. RTGRAM is optimised for speech signals and has options for different sampling rates, analysis bandwidths, temporal resolution and colour maps.

RTGRAM is not public domain software, its intellectual property is owned by Mark Huckvale, University College London. However RTGRAM may be used and copied without charge as long as the program remains unmodified and continue to carry its copyright notice. »

«Signalyze is not currently available.

Signalyze is legacy voice and acoustic signal analysis software for the Macintosh developed by Eric Keller, Professor Emeritus, University of Lausanne, administered by Linguist Plus, and formerly distributed by Agora Language Marketplace. It requires Mac System 8, 9, or the Classic environment under OS X. It will not currently run without Mac OS 9 or the Classic environment.

More information on Signalyze and its functions can be found here.»

«The program SONA is a versatile experimental tool for finding and visualizing relevant information in both the time and the frequency domain of a speech signal.

In the time domain, the program allows:

• digital recording of speech of nearly unlimited length with16 bit quantization
• oscillographic representation with freely scaleable time and amplitude resolution
• all kinds of signal manipulation (waveform editing)
• reproduction of single or concatenated speech segments
• measurement of their duration and intensity

Furthermore, the segments can be marked and transcribed phonetically (Labeling).

In the frequency domain (lower half of the screen), the program generates a digital spectral analysis of the speech signal in 2D or 3D. The 3D representation of the time dependent power spectrum is known as Visible Speech or sonagram and is one of the most important practical tools of linguistics and phonetics. Sonagrams are represented in gray scale or colour coding in one of five frequency sections (0.5 to 8 KHz) with variable breadth. One mouse click enables the user to listen to a selected segment or measure frequency and intensity of its spectrum.»

«Sonogram is a highly flexible audio spectrum analyzer for the analysis of sound, music and speech signals in the frequency-domain using different new algorithms.»

«SoundIndex est un outil qui alie un éditeur de texte structuré en XML avec un éditeur de son. Il permet d’écrire des tags <audio> à n’importe quel niveau dans l’arborescence d’un fichier XML en mettant comme valeurs pour les attributs start et end celles qui sont lues dans l’éditeur de son. L’interprétation des tags <audio> se fait par le biais de feuilles de styles écrites en XSL.»

«SoundScope software digitizes, analyzes, presents and databases speech and sound waveforms on Macintosh computers.

SoundScope is a third generation speech and sound analysis product line that represents a breakthrough in ease-of-use and advanced features.

Record a sound, perform analysis, extract key values, and compute statistics all with a few clicks of the mouse. Scroll through data, adjust the scale or display range, and even change the parameters for sound analysis computations.

• Record, view, analyze, play, store & print sound waveforms.
• See spectrograms in full color.
• View fundamental frequency (Fo), jitter (pitch perturbation), shimmer (amplitude perturbation), frequency spectra (FFT), linear predictive coding (LPC), and much more.
• Compute statistics such as percent voiced, percent unvoiced and percent silent.
• Design your own instrument screen, no programming required.
• Customize menus and displays.
• Record and playback up to maximum CPU memory (e.g. record for 100 seconds at 22kSamples/sec with 4.5 MB of free memory).
• Enter notes and observations into the integrated text editor.»

«You can use Speech Analyzer to do the following tasks:

• Perform fundamental frequency, spectrographic and spectral analysis, and duration measurements.
• Add phonemic, orthographic, tone, and gloss transcriptions to phonetic transcriptions in an interlinear format.
• Perform ethnomusicological analysis of music recordings.
• Use slowed playback, repeat loops and overlays to assist with perception and mimicry of sounds for language learning.

Operating system: Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows Vista or Windows 7.»

«Speech Studio is a software and hardware package, which has been specially designed for phoneticians, speech scientists and quantitative work by ENT clinicians and SLT’s. It supports data recording direct to hard disk, real-time displays, and instantaneous quantitative analysis and pattern target mode for speech training.

Speech Studio software is Windows-based, user friendly, and feature rich.

Speech Studio also includes a very powerful program, which can make an extensive range of quantitative analysis on connected speech. It is seamlessly integrated with the data recording and display program. It can work on different kinds of speech pattern elements and produce powerful graph families. The speech elements include fundamental frequency, speech amplitude, contact quotient, nasality and friction.»

«Transana is designed to facilitate the transcription and qualitative analysis of video and audio data. It provides a way to view video or play audio recordings, create a transcript, and link places in the transcript to frames in the video. It provides tools for identifying and organizing analytically interesting portions of video or audio files, as well as for attaching keywords to those video or audio clips. It also features database and file manipulation tools that facilitate the organization and storage of large collections of digitized video.»

«TranscriberAG is designed for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions.

TranscriberAG is geared toward the needs of the speech research community, but its features might be found useful for other applications. It uses the Annotation Graph format as native format but can read a number of other annotation formats.

TranscriberAG is distributed as free software under the GNU General Public License GPLv3.»

TranscriberAG (Versió 2.0.0-b1) [Programa informàtic]. (2011). DGA. http://transag.sourceforge.net/

TranscriberAG (Versió 2.0.0-b1) [Programa informàtic]. (2011). DGA. http://transag.sourceforge.net/

«WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone tool for a wide range of tasks in speech research and education. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. WaveSurfer can also serve as a platform for more advanced/specialized applications. This is accomplished either through extending the WaveSurfer application with new custom plug-ins or by embedding WaveSurfer visualization components in other applications.

• Multi-platform - Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP, Macintosh, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, and SGI IRIX
• Flexible interface - handles multiple sounds
• Common sound file formats - reads, and writes WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, CSL, SD, Ogg/Vorbis, and NIST/Sphere
• Transcription file formats - reads, and writes HTK (and MLF), TIMIT, ESPS/Waves+ and Phondat. Support for encodings and Unicode
• Unlimited file size - playback and recording directly from/to disk
• Sound analysis - e.g. spectrogram and pitch analysis
• Customizable - users can create their own configurations. Localization support
• Extensible - new functionality can be added through a plugin architecture
• Embeddable - WaveSurfer can be used as a widget in custom applications
• Scriptable - hosts a built-in script interpreter»

«Windows EDW (WEDW) is a fundamentally new program which attempts to provide similar functionality to the Unix/DOS version (EDW), but with a very different user interface.

WEDW retains some of the appearance of EDW in that a waveform display region is always present while spectrogram and pitch marking windows can be toggled on and off as desired. Both EDW and WEDW read and write waveforms in an extended RIFF (Microsoft .WAV) format that includes waveform segment definitions and both are also able to read an older .WAV format that was the original format used by EDW.

• Waveform
• Labels
• Spectrogram
• Pitch Tracking

WEDW provides a way to display special symbols such as IPA phonetic symbols when a font for the symbols is available.

Prosodic features of duration, F0, and amplitude can be changed.»

«WinCECIL is a speech analysis tool based on the DOS CECIL version 2.1 program. WinCECIL provides support for recording, analyzing, and saving of 3 second sections of speech. WinCECIL requires a 20MHz 80386 computer or better running Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher. It also requires a Windows Multimedia-compatible sound card.

Use this program to view speech recordings, automatic pitch contours, and spectrograms. Recording limit is 3 seconds.

Most of the functions of the WinCECIL program has been superseded by the Speech Analyzer program. This product has been discontinued and is no longer supported.»

• «WinPitchW10 for prosodic research, with on the fly aligner, real-time spectrograph, multi-tracking F0 analysis, video and audio analysis, and much more.
• WinPitch LTL W8 for language teaching, with all the features of WinPitch Pro plus authoring functions to produce and test pronunciation lessons for learners.
• WinPitch LTL Only a dedicated version for language learners, using pronunciation exercises prepared with WinPitch LTL. Includes an automatic aligner for error detection and prosodic morphing functions.

All these versions run under Windows® XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. They also run on a Mac computer with an appropriate Windows emulator installed (such as BootCamp)»

«For several years we have undertaken the development of the software WinSnoori which is for both speech scientists as a research tool and teachers in phonetics as an illustration tool. It consists of five types of tools:

• to edit speech signals
• to annotate phonetically or orthographically speech signals. WinSnorri offers tools to explore annotated corpora automatically
• to analyse speech with several spectral analyses and monitor spectral peaks along time
• to study prosody. Besides pitch calculation it is possible to synthesise new signals by modifying the F0 curve and/or the speech rate
• to generate parameters for the Klatt synthesiser (in the Motif version). A user friendly graphic interface and copy synthesis tools allows the user to generate files for the Klatt synthesiser easily.»

«xassp is an application for displaying, analysing and processing speech signals. It is intended for segmental and prosodic labelling, but can be used for different purposes, because of its numerous configuration possibilities.

User-definable configurations allow to open several associated files together and to automatically perform certain analyses of the speech signal. The configuration Segmental, e.g. is intended for segmental labelling. The windows that are opened when choosing this configuration are:

• a speech signal that can be selected in the main dialog
• a sonagram that is computed by means of spectral analysis of the speech signal
• the labels that are associated with the speech signal

The configuration Prosodic is used for prosodic labelling. When choosing this configuration the following windows are opened:

• the selected speech signal
• the fundamental frequency computed from the speech signal
• the labels that are associated with the speech signal

Although xassp is mainly intended for segmental and prosodic labelling, it provides several additional possibilities for analysing speech signals:

• Fundamental frequency (F0): The fundamental frequency can be displayed in different ways (range, linear or logarithmic scale)
• Energy
• Sonagram (FFT and LPC)
• Section (FFT and LPC)»

When we speak, we subconsciously listen to vowel and consonant sounds to ensure we're producing them correctly. If our speech is slightly different from what we intended, we adjust the way we speak to correct for these slight errors.

For some of us, detecting these errors or making the necessary adjustments can be a challenge. That's why we developed the icSpeech Analyzer.

How does the speech analyzer work?

icSpeech Analyzer uses the clinically proven technique of biofeedback to help improve your speech. Biofeedback lets you see your speech on a computer screen in real-time. At first, you learn to control your speech while looking at the display and comparing your speech to an example. Then, with practise, you learn to control your speech without looking at the display.

icSpeech Analyzer supports the following biofeedback displays:

You can also record your speech, create target displays, and perform measurements on a range of speech parameters.

Waveform displays

Waveform displays are useful for controlling speech rate, loudness and pitch. They also show the difference between voiced consonants, voiceless consonants and vowel sounds.

Waveforms scan across the display from right to left, with intensity or frequency plotted vertically and time horizontally. The time taken to scan the entire display can be adjusted to suit your needs.

The above example shows a speech waveform (top) and a voice intensity waveform (bottom). This example clearly illustrates the difference between the voiced sound /b/ and the unvoiced sound /p/.

You can also save the waveform display and perform precise measurements on a range of speech parameters, including:

• Speech rate (independent of pauses or dysfluencies).
• Speech intensity (loudness).
• Voice pitch.
• Voice intensity.
• Voice onset time.
• Sentence, word, syllable and phoneme duration.

Speech Analysis Format

Bar displays

The real-time bar is a useful biofeedback tool that shows a simple bar, which moves upwards with increased pitch, loudness or voice intensity. This allows you to monitor your speech, make corrections, and instantly see the result. Bar charts are particularly useful when working with sustained sounds.

The above example shows pitch (yellow bar) and a target (blue bar). Targets are adjustable bars that appear next to the active bar. Depending on the task, you can try to keep below, reach or exceed the target.

Video displays

Mirrors are often used in speech therapy as they allow you to view lips, teeth, jaw, tongue and facial muscles during speech.

Visual feedback, using the built-in webcam feature, takes this a step further. With a webcam you can:

• Pause your image for closer inspection.
• Record your video and audio.
• Practise your speech whilst watching example recordings.

Spectrogram displays

A spectrogram is a visual representation of sound. It scans across the display from right to left, with frequency plotted vertically and time horizontally. The intensity of sound, or loudness, is indicated by grey scale or color intensity. The spectrogram below clearly shows the difference between the /r/ sound and the /w/ sound.

Studies have shown that some people, especially children, have difficulty detecting when they misproduce certain sounds. Spectrograms provide additional feedback, helping you to match your speech to a visual target. At first, you rely on visual feedback and learn to ignore your auditory feedback (people often say their correct speech production sounds wrong). Once you've mastered the correct speech production, you can start to rely more on your auditory feedback and less on the visual feedback.

Spectrograms can be particularly useful for people that substitute the following sounds:

• /w/ for /r/
• /w/ for /l/
• /m/ for /b/
• /p/ for /b/
• /s/ for “sh” or vice versa

Spectrum displays

The spectrum display provides an alternative method of visually representing the acoustic signal. The display is ideal for viewing fundamental frequency (pitch), harmonic frequencies, and formant frequencies (vocal tract resonances). Speech intensity, or loudness, is plotted vertically and frequency horizontally.

The above displays illustrate the frequency spectrum for the vowel sound /i/. The top display (FFT) shows the fine spectral detail associated with the fundamental frequency and its harmonics. The bottom display (LPC), highlights the formant frequencies by removing the fundamental and harmonic frequencies.

System requirements

Operating Systems	Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP
CPU	Minimum 1 GHz Intel® Pentium® or equivalent
Memory	Minimum 1 GB of RAM
Storage	100 MB of free hard disk space
Microphone	Any PC compatible microphone
Webcam (optional)	Any USB Windows compatible webcam

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To download a free trial of icSpeech Analyzer, simply click on the download button and follow the installation instructions.

For best results, we recommend using a USB headset microphone. See our range of recommended microphones.

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