PHO121 - Speech Analysis

This E-Lecture first discusses the central methods of sound analysis and then shows how spectrograms are produced and analyzed. This includes a discussion of the formant frequencies of vowels, the acoustic characteristics of consonants and the construction of an acoustic vowel chart.

[evelynzhang]

I'm not a linguist, but a voice actress, and I also find this video very helpful for improving my craft. Thank you!

[chloektt]

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[ameenalgamal.]

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I always full in love with all his e-lectures.
Thanks a bunch.

[slpwalkr]

Outstanding exposition! Thanks so much Herr Handke!

[TheRandomINFJ]

Audiobook narrator here. This video rocks. So useful, merci! 🤓🤜🤛💖

[evamejia]

I truly appreciate your video I'm a former student on the applied linguistics field in Mexico, I had some trouble understanding some concepts and your video was of great help.

[hamsterballen]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I studied half Google just to understand Spectrograms but I never understood anything. And now I get everything, and the moment when you compared the formants I was like.. Oooohh that looks like IPA! And one second later you said "does there ring a bell?!" I had to smile a lot :) thank you so much.that was the last big package for my examn on Monday!
Vielen dank!:)

[meryeme.]

I am very thankful, i study phoentics Master degree in Amsterdam. PRAAT is a must have in our corses, i didnt understand from lectures until i landed I wish i can reach you and ask for more knowledge because your explanation is very helpfull.

[fabiolamaci]

I am currently doing acoustic analysis of speech as one of my modules in linguistics and I have been struggling to understand some of the lectures. This video has helped a lot. Thank you.

[minuchetry]

You are great sir and the way you teach is more effective . Thank you so much sir .

[kennedyjohnson]

i am a linguistics major. ur videos really help me a lot!!!! thanks so much!!!

[NaturalBrowniii]

Thank you so much for this video! I've been subscribed since maybe December, and anytime I've been confused or needed a more through understanding of some sort of linguistic topic, I've been able to find a video on this channel to help me out! Thanks once again!

[zainabyousef]

You are so good in your explanation. Thanks alot

[davepowell]

A fascinating insight to the science and analysis.

[davidphilipsmusic]

I'm slightly confused. With the /u/ vowel you said the pharyngeal cavity is small so that leads to a low F1. However I thought that a shorter cavity would mean a higher formant. You also say the front cavity for /u/ is very "narrow" leading to a low F2 value. I understood that a low F2 value would be due to a longer front cavity, due to the back position of the tongue dorsal for that vowel and also to some extent the lip rounding which makes the resonator tract longer in general. Many thanks

[matthewthomas]

I didn't think for a moment that speech analysis involved watching 50 shades of grey xD

[YMFart]

These videos are great and I really appreciate the effort gone into them, but there's one remark I wanted to make regarding the bit around 9:30 to around 12:10. You claimed that the [i] sound has a low F1 because the pharyngeal cavity is large, which is true, but then said that [u] has a low F1 despite the cavity being small. It doesn't really add up, does it? Similar with F2, the bigger the resonance room, the lower the respective formant, so [u] having a narrow resonance room should lead to it having a high F2. The formants on the spectrogram are highlighted correctly, but the way you describe them is, well… Maybe it's just not the best choice of words from your side, but it's really confusing. Thank you for the videos anyway (and yes, I know this comment is long after this one's been posted, whatever)

[rockentui]

I actually understand my homework thanks to this

[lrwhcymru]

Hi Professor. I'm a speech and language therapy student in the UK and have found this video really useful in preparation for my acoustic phonetics exam!!! I'm having difficulty locating the spectrogram analysis videos you mention at the end of the above video. Do you know where I can access them??? Many thanks Luke

[jiriheger]

Absolutely perfect!! Thank you so much.