Computational Phonetics
Phonetics is the study of speech sounds, it investigates physical properties of the sound waves constituting the actual speech signal and (unsurprisingly) shares a great deal of notion and tools with standard Signal Processing. Computational phonetics is the design of algorithms implementing phonetic analysis methods.
The books that are shaping my early training as a phonetician/linguist :
- Initially: and Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics both by prof. Keith Johnson, as well as by prof. Harald Baayen.
- On the second round: by prof. John Coleman and the tiny introduction by prof. Peter Roach.
- On the third (on-going and pretty lengthy probably) round: by prof.'s Dan Jurafsky & James Martin and by prof. Peter Ladefoged.
The people doing the dirty field work that provides me with heaps of beautiul data to play with : Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica and
The software that makes my work possible : (alongside , , and )
The usual "dependent variable" of my work is : , the Fundamental Frequency that in physiological terms expresses how fast a person's vocal cords vibrate.