Online phonetics resources

(0) Whole phonetics courses with considerable online materials

• A Course in Phonetics, Peter Ladefoged
  http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/contents.html

• Vowels and Consonants, Peter Ladefoged
  http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.html

• Course materials by Fred Cummins, Northwestern University, 1998
  http://cspeech.ucd.ie/~fred/teaching/oldcourses/phonetics/

• Course materials by Kevin Russell, University of Manitoba, 2005
  http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/

• Speech tutorials by H. Timothy Bunnell, University of Delaware
  http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/

• Audio files for introductory phonetics courses, University of Utrecht
  http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/e_index.html

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(1) Vocal-tract diagrams

• Labeled line drawing of vocal tract, from the SIL Mexico web site
  http://www.sil.org/mexico/ling/glosario/E005bi-OrgansArt.htm

• Labeled line drawing of vocal tract, University of Lausanne (scroll down)
  http://www.unil.ch/Jahia/site/ling/cache/offonce/pid/24434

• Customizable vocal tract, by Daniel Hall, U Toronto (also listed in (7))
  Specify properties of oral/nasal stops and fricatives; see the corresponding IPA symbol and vocal-tract configuration
  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html

• Photo of sagittal section of head and neck with structures labeled, from the Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources web site, University of Michigan Medical School
  http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/atlas/rsa3p1.html

• Graphic from the Visible Human Project, with labels by Kevin Russell (see also main listing in (0))
  http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/anatomy/anatomy.html

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(2) The larynx, phonation, and VOT

• Three-dimensional, rotatable model of the larynx, from the Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources web site, University of Michigan Medical School
  http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/qtvr/qtvr_larynx.html

• Information on how the larynx is examined and photographed, by K. Marasek, Experimental Phonetics Group, University of Stuttgart
  http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page13a.htm

• Still photos of vocal folds in different stages of vibration, from Fred Cummins's phonetics course (see also main listing in (0))
  http://cspeech.ucd.ie/~fred/teaching/oldcourses/phonetics/glottis.html

• Video demos of vocal-fold vibration (slow motion), from the UCLA Phonetics Lab
  http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/demos/vocalfolds/vocalfolds.htm

• Animated two-dimensional models of vocal-fold oscillation, from the National Center for Voice and Speech
  http://www.ncvs.org/ncvs/tutorials/voiceprod/tutorial/model.html

• Tutorial on voicing (diagrams of larynx; waveforms), from University College London
  http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wtutor?tutorial=siphtra/vb1.htm

• Tutorial on VOT in plosives, with audio files of contrasts, from University College London
  http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/siphtra/plostut2/plostut2.htm

• Audio files of different phonation types, by K. Marasek, Experimental Phonetics Group, University of Stuttgart
  http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page10.htm

• Audio files of singing voices (demonstrating emotion, 'modes' of singing, vowels at high pitches, synthesized singing), from Universiteit Utrecht (see also main listing in (0))
  http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_zangstem.html

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(3) The vocal tract in action: video clips and animations

• Cineradiography demos: two English utterances and one in French, from the X-Ray Film Database project (scroll down)
  http://pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca/~munhallk/05_database.htm

• X-ray videos of tongue, jaw, larynx position during [ieaou] utterance, from Peter Ladefoged's Vowels and Consonants (see also main listing in (0))
  http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/chapter11/chapter11.html

• Video demos of vocal-fold vibration: see (2)
  

• Laryngoscopic video clips of glottal and pharyngeal consonants, by John Esling, University of Victoria
  http://web.uvic.ca/ling/research/phonetics/lands.htm

• Three-dimensional animations of American English electropalatography data (with audio), from the UCLA Phonetics Lab
  http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/facilities/physiology/epg.html#3D

• Animation: coarticulation effects (from X-ray data), by Sidney Wood, Lund University
  http://person2.sol.lu.se/SidneyWood/coartdem/

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(4) Basic acoustics

• Animations and demos about waves, from "Zona Land," by Edward A. Zobel
  http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/waves/waves.html
  • Wave Adder -- demonstrates component addition; specify amplitudes and frequencies to add
    http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/waves/waveAdder/WaveAdder1.html
  • Standing-wave animations, showing harmonics and their addition
    http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/waves/standingWaves/standingWaves.html

• Tutorials from The Physics Classroom, by Tom Henderson (include animations)
  • Waves
    http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/waves/
  • Sound Waves and Music
    http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/

• Examples of waveforms you can see and click to hear, by H. Timothy Bunnell, U. of Delaware (see also main listing in (0))
  
  • Waveforms (simple and complex)
    http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/acoustics/time_domain.html
  • Line spectra; click on individual components or hear their sum
    http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/acoustics/freq_domain.html

• [NEW] The Music Acoustics site, University of New South Wales
  http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/

• Acoustics and vibration animations, by Dan Russell, Kettering University
  http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/demos.html

• [NEW] Animation of a standing longitudinal wave in a tube (open/closed)
  http://www.shep.net/resources/curricular/physics/java/physengl/stlwaves.htm

• Sound and hearing page from the HyperPhysics site, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University (also listed in (6))
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/soucon.html#soucon
  • Sound level measurement
    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/dbcon.html#c1
  • Sound reproduction
    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/audio/audiocon.html#c1

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(5) Spectrograms, acoustic phonetics, and speech synthesis

• Monthly Mystery Spectrogram, by Rob Hagiwara, University of Manitoba
  Introduction to spectrograms and a new spectrogram to try "reading" each month (plus past examples, with solutions given)
  http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~robh/

• Two models of the glottal-source wave with waveforms and audio files, by H. Timothy Bunnell, University of Delaware (see also main listing in (0))
  http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/production/source.htm

• Source-filter model of vocal tract, with duck call-source, from the Exploratorium in San Francisco
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/vocal_vowels/vocal_vowels.html

• About the Klatt speech synthesizer, by H. Timothy Bunnell, University of Delaware (see also main listing in (0))
  Good for class demo; you can synthesize online
  http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis/
  • Vowel synthesizer: enter formants and hear resulting vowels
    http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis/vowels.html
  • CV synthesizer
    http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis/ceevees.html

• [NEW] Formant-based real-time speech synthesizer, by Jonas Beskow, Centre for Speech Technology, KTH Stockholm
  http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/formant/

• A synthesized phrase, from Peter Ladefoged's Vowels and Consonants (see also main listing in (0))
  Different parts of the signal can be played separately (i.e., each formant, or high-frequency fricative noise)
  http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/chapter7/abirdinthehand.html

• Audio files of synthesized speech, from University of Utrecht (see also main listing in (0)): From a vinyl recording accompanying Klatt's (1987) paper on the history of text-to-speech conversion
  http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_milestones_in_text-to-speech_conversion.html

• [NEW] Synthesized sentences created by the Pattern Playback, from Haskins Laboratories
  http://www.haskins.yale.edu/featured/sentences/ppsentences.html

• Discussion of "sinewave speech" with audio files, by Philip Rubin, Robert Remez, and Jennifer Pardo, Haskins Laboratories
  http://www.haskins.yale.edu/research/sws.html

• [NEW] Vowel plotting software

  • JPlotFormants, by Roger Billerey-Mosier
    http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/grads/billerey/PlotFrog.htm

  • PLOTNIK, by Bill Labov, University of Pennsylvania
    http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/Plotnik.html

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(6) Speech perception and audiology

• Sound and hearing page from the HyperPhysics site, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University (also listed in (4))
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/soucon.html#soucon
  • Diagrams of the ear
    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/ear.html#c1

• "Promenade 'round the cochlea," by Rémy Pujol et al., L'Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier
  Includes drawings and electron micrographs of the cochlea
  http://www.cochlea.org/

• Animation of basilar membrane oscillations, by Gary G. Matthews, from Blackwell Science
  http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/matthews/ear.html

• [NEW] Online demos of speech perception experiments

  • Vowel perception is affected by surrounding vowels (demo based on Ladefoged & Broadbent 1957), by Peter Ladefoged and Malcolm Slaney
    http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~malcolm/interval/1997-056/VowelQuality.html

  • Categorical perception: Vowel length in bat/bad, from Peter Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics (see also main listing in (0))
    http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter10/percpetial.html

  • Categorical perception: Place of articulation in stops, by Anders Eriksson, University of Gõteborg
    http://www.ling.gu.se/~anders/KatPer/

  • Categorical perception: Place of articulation in stops, from the Multimedia Textbook in Behavioral Neuroscience, Rice University
    http://psych.rice.edu/mmtbn/language/sPerception/dagaSound/catDis.html

  • Categorical perception: [r] vs. [l], by Julie Fiez
    http://www.psych.ufl.edu/~white/cate_per.htm

• [NEW] Videos demonstrating the McGurk Effect

  • Video by arnte (YouTube)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73LE1vKGfy4&NR=1

  • Video at graspr.com
    http://www.graspr.com/videos/McGurk-Effect-1

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(7) Extra practice, tutorials, and self-tests

• Practice with IPA symbols and transcription

  • Transcription practice for words/Canadian English, by Kevin Russell, University of Manitoba (see also main listing in (0))
    Can hear audio and check transcription
    • One-syllable words
      http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/practice/typewriter/pract1a.html
    • Two-syllable words
      http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/practice/typewriter/pract2a.html
    • Longer words
      http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/practice/typewriter/pract3.html

  • Texts transcribed in IPA for reading practice, by Kevin Russell, University of Manitoba (see also main listing in (0))
    http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/readings/readings.html

  • Animations showing how to draw certain non-Roman IPA symbols, by Johanna Rubba, California Polytechnic State University
    http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba/phon/drawsymbols/

• Properties of consonants

  • Self-test for English consonant properties, by Kevin Russell, University of Manitoba (see also main listing in (0))
    http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/practice/consonant/d2intro.htm

  • Customizable vocal tract, by Daniel Hall, U Toronto (also listed in (1))
    Specify properties of oral/nasal stops and fricatives; see the corresponding IPA symbol and vocal-tract configuration
    http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html

  • Tutorial: basic facts about plosives, from University College London
    Useful tutorial for recognizing drawings of places of articulation, but clicking on the accompanying sound files returns a "404 Not found" error
    http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wtutor?tutorial=siphtra/plostut1/plostut1.htm

• Tutorials on prosody: chunking, focus, and pitch, by Sue Peppé and John Maidment, University College London
  http://www.eptotd.btinternet.co.uk/pow/powin.htm

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(8) Audio examples of individual speech sounds

• Interactive IPA charts with illustrative sound files

  • From Peter Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics (see also main listing in (0))
    http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter1/chapter1.html

  • From the University of Victoria
    http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm

  • From Paul Meier Dialect Services (scroll down to see charts)
    http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html

  • From Jonathan Dowse
    http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html

• Online resources from Peter Ladefoged's books
  Example words from a wide variety of languages
  • Language index from A Course in Phonetics (see also main listing in (0))
    http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/languageindex.html
  • Vowels and Consonants (see also main listing in (0))
    http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.html

• Additional language data from the UCLA Phonetics Lab (also listed in (9))
  • The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive
    http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/
  • The UCLA Phonetics Lab Data Collection
    http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index.html

• Online Phonetics Course, University of Lausanne
  • Consonant sound files: follow the "more about..." links
    http://www.unil.ch/Jahia/site/ling/cache/offonce/pid/24436
  • Vowel sound files: follow the links on the left sidebar under "Vowels"
    http://www.unil.ch/Jahia/site/ling/cache/offonce/pid/24437

• Cardinal vowels

  • Original recordings of Daniel Jones, from Universiteit Utrecht
    http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_cardinal_vowels.html

  • [NEW] Cardinal vowels by Daniel Jones and by Peter Ladefoged, from the web site for A Course in Phonetics (see also main listing in (0))
    http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter9/cardinal/cardinal.html

• Audio examples and exercises to accompany W. A. Smalley's classic Manual of Articulatory Phonetics
  http://bach.arts.kuleuven.be/MOAP/

• Sites with audio files of individual sounds from the inventories of "mainstream" US and British English (English sounds are also covered in the Ladefoged links above; see (10) for more on various dialects and accents of English)

  • US English: Sounds of English site for ESL/EFL learners, by Sharon Widmayer, George Mason University, and Holly Gray, Anne Arundel Community College
    Non-technical, but includes photographs of articulations and audio files of individual sounds
    http://www.soundsofenglish.org/pronunciation/sounds.htm

  • US and British English: Examples of typical US and British vowels, by George Dillon, U of Washington
    http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/vowels.html

  • British English: Audio examples of consonants and vowels, from the Oxford University Press (China) web site
    http://www.oupchina.com.hk/dict/phonetic/home.html

  • British English: "English phonetics and phonology for non-native speakers," by David Brett, University of Sassari
    http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/page%20with%20frames2.htm

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(9) Audio files of non-English words and texts

• Many languages: Language data from the UCLA Phonetics Lab (also listed in (8))
  • The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive
    http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/
  • The UCLA Phonetics Lab Data Collection
    http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index.html

• Many languages: Free downloadable (zipped) sound files from the IPA; also cassettes and CDs for purchase
  http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/sounds.html

• [NEW] Radio broadcasts in multiple languages

  • BBC World Service
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/

  • Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
    http://www.rferl.org/howtolisten/default.html

• A Chinese language (which one?): From Universiteit Utrecht
  http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_onbekende_taal.html

• Finnish: Audio files illustrating Finnish proper names, by Kai Nikulainen
  http://www.sci.fi/~kajun/finns/

• Kekchi: From Universiteit Utrecht
  http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_onbekende_taal.html

• Norwegian: Text read by speakers from over 50 different dialects; includes transcription. Site by Jørn Almberg and Kristian Skarbø.
  http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos/

• Spanish: Web site to accompany The Sounds of Spanish: Analysis and Application, by Robert M. Hammond
  http://www.cascadilla.com/ssaa/index.html

• Swedish: from Pronouncement Software
  http://www.pronouncement.com/pronunci.htm

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(10) Dialects and accents of English

10.1 English worldwide

• International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA), University of Kansas
  Includes MP3 audio files of scripted and spontaneous speech representing dialects of English worldwide as well as non-native accents
  http://www.ku.edu/~idea/

• Evaluating English Accents Worldwide site, University of Otago
  Includes audio files of a sample text read by one male and one female speaker of New Zealand, Australian, North American, and British English
  http://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/Linguistic/Accents.html

• [NEW] The alt.usage.english Audio Archive
  Audio files recorded by English speakers from around the world; also includes formant plots for a subset of speakers
  http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml

• Native and non-native accents in English, by linguistics classes at George Mason University
  Audio files of the same English text read by speakers from different native-language backgrounds, with IPA transcriptions of their English pronunciation and (in some cases) information about the native-language phonological system
  http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent

10.2 USA English

• National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English, by William Labov, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg, University of Pennsylvania, 1997
  Map with text discussion of characteristics of the dialects; apparently no audio files
  http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NationalMap.html

• [NEW] Regional dialects of American English

  • PhonoAtlas KY (Kentucky), Morehead State University
    http://www.phonoatlasky.net/

10.3 Canadian English

• Canadian Raising page, with audio, by Taylor Roberts, York University (Toronto)
  http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/raising.html

10.4 UK English

• [NEW] Sounds familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK, from the British Library
  Includes descriptions, sound files, and dialect maps
  http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/

• [NEW] "Voices" web site, from the BBC
  From a BBC program on language and dialects in the UK; includes articles, interviews, audio files, and dialect maps
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/

• English Intonation in the British Isles (IViE corpus) site, Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory (also listed in (12))
  Includes audio files and intonation transcriptions of seven British English dialects
  http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/files/apps/IViE/

10.5 New Zealand English

• New Zealand English, with audio, by John Newman, University of Alberta
  http://www.ualberta.ca/~johnnewm/NZEnglish/home.html

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(11) IPA resources: charts, fonts

• IPA charts and general information

  • The International Phonetic Association web site
    Includes full and partial IPA charts, extended IPA symbols for transcribing disordered speech, links to downloadable audio files, and links to sites with IPA fonts
    http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/

  • For interactive IPA charts with audio examples, see under (8)

• IPA fonts

  • SIL International's downloadable IPA fonts
    http://scripts.sil.org/IPAhome

  • Tips for word-processing with IPA fonts
    • By Bruce Hayes, UCLA
      http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Fonts/
    • By Jennifer Smith, University of North Carolina
      http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith/ipa-fonts.html
    • By John Wells, University College London
      http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbols.htm
    • IPA 4 Linguists
      http://ipa4linguists.pbworks.com/

• Tools for typing IPA in Unicode

  • Unicode Phonemic Typewriter, by David Brett, University of Sassari
    Requires Flash; also generates HTML for adding IPA to web pages
    http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/phonemic%20typewriter/phonemic%20typewriter2.html

  • IPA Palette, a downloadable IPA input device for Mac OS X, by Brian S. Hall
    http://www.blugs.com/IPA/

• Displaying IPA on web sites

  • Information on displaying Unicode IPA fonts on web pages, by John Wells, University of London
    http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm

  • Graphical IPA Keypad, from the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
    A utility for incorporating IPA symbols into web pages as graphics files
    http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/ipa/

• The IPA in Braille, from a page by Claude Chaunier
  http://clauchau.free.fr/L/phonalph.html

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(12) Tone and intonation

• General information on the ToBI intonation/prosody framework, from The Ohio State University
  http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~tobi/
  • List of languages and dialects with ToBI systems
    http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~tobi/#languages

• [NEW] ToBI Clinic: Sound files for ToBI transcription practice, with TextGrids, from The Ohio State University
  http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~blodgett/TOBICLINIC/tobiclinic.html

• [NEW] Transcribing Prosodic Structure of Spoken Utterances with ToBI, from MIT OpenCourseWare
  http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-911-transcribing-prosodic-structure-of-spoken-utterances-with-tobi-january-iap-2006/

• English Intonation in the British Isles (IViE corpus) site, Oxford University Phonetics Laboratory (also listed in (10))
  Includes audio files and intonation transcriptions of seven British English dialects
  http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/files/apps/IViE/

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(13) Other useful resources for phonetics/phonology

• Online glossaries of phonetics/phonology/linguistics terms

  • Glossary of linguistic terms, by J. Albert Bickford and David Tuggy, SIL Mexico (includes Spanish translations of linguistic terms)
    http://www.sil.org/mexico/ling/glosario/E005ai-Glossary.htm

  • Speech Internet Dictionary, by John Maidment, University College London
    http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/sid/sidhome.htm

  • Glossary for "pronunciation" (phonetics/phonology) terms, from About.com
    http://esl.about.com/library/special/bl_phonemes_explained2.htm

• The World Atlas of Language Structures Online, edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie
  http://wals.info/

• Language universals archive, by Elena Filimonova and Franz Plank, Universitaet Konstanz
  http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/archive/intro/

• Todd Bailey's Stress System Database: primary stress systems in 190 languages
  http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/subsites/ssdb/

• List of minimal pairs for English (RP), by John Higgins
  http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/

• A list of shareware tools for speech analysis, compiled by the Internet Institute for Speech and Hearing
  http://www.speechandhearing.net/laboratory/tools.php

• Dani Byrd's Linklist, at USC
  http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~dbyrd/linklist.html

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