Online phonetics resources
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This is a list of web sites that could be appropriate for use in an introductory phonetics course; most of these sites include audio, images, or interactive material. The list includes a number of items from the list of phonetics sites compiled by Karen Steffen Chung (see LINGUIST List posts 11.1812, 11.1869, and 11.1964). It also includes other sites that have been discussed on the LINGUIST list, sites I have found from web searches, and sites that people have told me about. Many thanks to the people and organizations who designed the sites that appear on this list and made their work available on the web.
If you find any broken links, please let me know
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The sites in this section have 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.)
Contents
(0)
Whole phonetics courses with considerable online materials
(1)
Vocal-tract diagrams
(2)
The larynx, phonation, and VOT
(3)
The vocal tract in action: video clips and animations
(4)
Basic acoustics
(5)
Spectrograms, acoustic phonetics, and speech synthesis
(6)
Speech perception and audiology
(7)
Extra practice, tutorials, and self-tests
(8)
Audio examples of individual speech sounds
(9)
Audio files of non-English words and texts
(10)
Dialects and accents of English
(11)
IPA resources: charts, fonts
(12)
Tone and intonation
(13)
Other useful resources for phonetics/phonology
(0) Whole phonetics courses with considerable online materials
(Relevant subunits also referenced in other sections of this document)
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/contents.html
http://www.wiley.com/go/ladefoged
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/contents.html
http://cspeech.ucd.ie/~fred/teaching/oldcourses/phonetics/
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/
http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/e_index.html
(1) Vocal-tract diagrams
http://www.sil.org/mexico/ling/glosario/E005bi-OrgansArt.htm
http://www.unil.ch/Jahia/site/ling/cache/offonce/pid/24434
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/anatomy.htm
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
http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/atlas/rsa3p1.html
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/anatomy/anatomy.html
(2) The larynx, phonation, and VOT
http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/qtvr/qtvr_larynx.html
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page13a.htm
http://cspeech.ucd.ie/~fred/teaching/oldcourses/phonetics/glottis.html
http://www.ncvs.org/ncvs/tutorials/voiceprod/tutorial/model.html
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wtutor?tutorial=siphtra/vb1.htm
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/siphtra/plostut2/plostut2.htm
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page10.htm
http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_zangstem.html
(3) The vocal tract in action: video clips and animations
http://pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca/~munhallk/05_database.htm
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter11/chapter11.html
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/research/phonetics/lands.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXM3gNxGO2M
http://swphonetics.com/coarticulation/exbulg/
(4) Basic acoustics
http://zonalandeducation.com/mstm/physics/waves/waves.html
http://zonalandeducation.com/mstm/physics/waves/waveAdder/WaveAdder1.html
http://zonalandeducation.com/mstm/physics/waves/standingWaves/standingWaves.html
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/waves/
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/acoustics/time_domain.html
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/acoustics/freq_domain.html
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/
http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos.html
Explicitly relates actual particle movement to displacement and pressure curves
http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/StandingWaves/StandingWaves.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/soucon.html#soucon
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/dbcon.html#c1
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/audio/audiocon.html#c1
(5) Spectrograms, acoustic phonetics, and speech synthesis
5.1 Spectrograms
Introduction to spectrograms and a new spectrogram to
try "reading" each month (plus past examples, with solutions given)
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~robh/
5.2 Acoustic phonetics and the source-filter model
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/production/source.htm
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/vocal_vowels/vocal_vowels.html
Good for class demo; you can synthesize online
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis/
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis/vowels.html
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis/ceevees.html
Download and use offline
http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/formant/
5.3 Synthetic speech
Different parts of the signal can be played separately
(i.e., each formant, or high-frequency fricative noise)
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter7/abirdinthehand.html
http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_milestones_in_text-to-speech_conversion.html
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/featured/sentences/ppsentences.html
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/research/sws.html
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/rhythmsp/ASA/Contents.html
http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/kemplne.htm
5.4 Vowel plotting software
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/grads/billerey/PlotFrog.htm
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/Plotnik.html
(6) Speech perception and audiology
6.1 Sound and hearing
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/soucon.html#soucon
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/ear.html#c1
Includes drawings and electron micrographs of the ear and cochlea; formerly "Promenade 'round the cochlea"
http://www.cochlea.org/en
http://www.cochlea.org/en/spe/ear-overview.html
http://www.cochlea.org/en/spe/corti-s-organ-overview.html
http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/animations/
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/matthews/ear.html
http://www.science.org.au/nova/029/029key.html
6.2 Online demos of speech perception experiments
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~malcolm/interval/1997-056/VowelQuality.html
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter10/percpetial.html
http://www.ling.gu.se/~anders/KatPer/
http://psych.rice.edu/mmtbn/language/sPerception/dagaSound/catDis.html
http://www.psych.ufl.edu/~white/cate_per.htm
6.3 Audiovisual speech perception (McGurk effect, etc.)
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~rosenblu/lab-index.html
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~rosenblu/VSMcGurk.html
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~rosenblu/VSMcGurk.v1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73LE1vKGfy4&NR=1
(7) Extra practice, tutorials, and self-tests
(Additional tutorials are listed in
(2) and (4))
7.1 IPA symbols and transcription
Can hear audio and check transcription
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/readings/readings.html
http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba/phon/drawsymbols/
7.2 Properties of consonants
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/practice/consonant/d2intro.htm
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
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wtutor?tutorial=siphtra/plostut1/plostut1.htm
7.3 Prosody
http://www.eptotd.btinternet.co.uk/pow/powin.htm
(8) Audio examples of individual speech sounds
8.1 Interactive IPA charts with illustrative sound files
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter1/chapter1.html
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm
http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html
http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html
8.2 Speech sounds illustrated in isolation
http://www.unil.ch/Jahia/site/ling/cache/offonce/pid/24436
http://www.unil.ch/Jahia/site/ling/cache/offonce/pid/24437
http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_cardinal_vowels.html
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter9/cardinal/cardinal.html
8.3 Speech sounds illustrated in context (words)
Example words illustrating sounds from a wide variety of languages
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/languageindex.html
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter13/chapter13.html
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter14/chapter14.html
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index.html
http://bach.arts.kuleuven.be/MOAP/
8.4 Individual sounds of English
Audio recordings and articulatory animations
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/
Non-technical, but includes photographs of articulations
and audio files of individual sounds
http://www.soundsofenglish.org/pronunciation/sounds.htm
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/vowels.html
http://www.oupchina.com.hk/dict/phonetic/home.html
http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/page%20with%20frames2.htm
(9) Audio files of non-English words and texts
9.1 Multiple languages
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index.html
http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/sounds.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/
http://www.rferl.org/howtolisten/default.html
http://www.africanlanguages.org/
http://www.everytongue.com/list1-on-line-recordings.htm
9.2 Individual languages
http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_onbekende_taal.html
http://www.sci.fi/~kajun/finns/
Audio recordings and articulatory animations
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/german/
http://www.let.uu.nl/~audiufon/data/e_onbekende_taal.html
http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos/
Audio recordings and articulatory animations
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/spanish/
http://www.cascadilla.com/ssaa/index.html
http://www.pronouncement.com/pronunci.htm
(10) Dialects and accents of English
(For IPA symbols and audio files of single speech sounds found in English, see under (8.4))
10.1 English worldwide
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/
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
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
Some varieties discussed, but not all, have audio files
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/
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
Map with text discussion of characteristics of the
dialects; apparently no audio files
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NationalMap.html
10.3 Canadian English
http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/raising.html
10.4 UK English
Includes descriptions, sound files, and dialect maps
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/
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/
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
http://www.ualberta.ca/~johnnewm/NZEnglish/home.html
(11) IPA resources: charts, fonts
(For transcription practice, see under (7))
11.1 IPA charts and general information
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/
11.2 IPA fonts
http://scripts.sil.org/IPAhome
http://ipa4linguists.pbworks.com/w/page/4325763/Cool%20free%20IPA%20fonts%20to%20download
http://clauchau.free.fr/L/phonalph.html
11.3 Typing and displaying IPA characters
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Fonts/
http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith/ipa-fonts.html
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbols.htm
http://ipa4linguists.pbworks.com/
Produces IPA to copy/paste; can generate HTML for adding IPA to web pages
http://davidbrett.uniss.it/phonology/phonemic%20typewriter/phonemic%20typewriter2.html
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm
A utility for incorporating IPA symbols into web pages
as graphics files
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/ipa/
http://www.blugs.com/IPA/
(12) Tone and intonation
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~tobi/
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~tobi/#languages
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~blodgett/TOBICLINIC/tobiclinic.html
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-911-transcribing-prosodic-structure-of-spoken-utterances-with-tobi-january-iap-2006/
Includes audio files and intonation transcriptions of
seven British English dialects
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/files/apps/IViE/
(13) Other useful resources for phonetics/phonology
13.1 Online glossaries of phonetics/phonology/linguistics terms
http://www.sil.org/mexico/ling/glosario/E005ai-Glossary.htm
http://blogjam.name/sid/
http://esl.about.com/library/special/bl_phonemes_explained2.htm
13.2 Resources for language typology and linguistic universals
http://wals.info/
http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/archive/intro/
http://www.cf.ac.uk/psych/subsites/ssdb/
http://www.yek.me.uk/vowels.html
13.3 Other resources
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/
http://www.speechandhearing.net/laboratory/tools.php
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~dbyrd/linklist.html