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A particular field of phonetics which is concerned with the specifics of sound once it is produced. Acoustic phonetics focuses on elements of sound such as frequency, duration, intensity etc. Sound can be recorded and then represented on a chart called a spectrogram, which helps visualize these elements. Depending on the look of each sound's spectrogram phoneticians can tell what type of sound was being made, specifics about how it was produced, and how a hearer might perceive the sound.
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'''Acoustic phonetics''' is the study of the physical properties of speech sounds; these include frequency, amplitude, pitch, etc. Because they exist in a continuous space, vowels are more reliably described with their acoustic features than the movement of articulators. Vowels are normally characterized by the format frequencies (F1, F2, F3) intrinsic to the shape of the vocal tract that creates a particular vocal sound; the source-filter model is often used to explore this phenomenon. Formant frequencies and other physical speech cues like frication, aspiration, and voicing can be analyzed by their waveforms or spectrograms.
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This subfield of phonetics in particular is vital to developing speech technologies that interpret and reproduce the human speech stream.
  
 
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==External Links==
 
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*http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/index.html
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*http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Phonetics/Acoustics/Acoustics.html
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*https://all-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk/branches-of-linguistics/phonetics/what-do-phoneticians-study/acoustic-phonetics/
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*https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/acoustic/spectrogram-sounds.html
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*https://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/medicine-and-health-sciences/departments-and-centres/department-of-linguistics/our-research/phonetics-and-phonology/speech/acoustics/acoustic-theory-of-speech-production/source-filter-theory#:~:text=The%20source%2Dfilter%20theory%20describes,properties%20of%20the%20vocal%20tract.&text=Sound%20sources%20can%20be%20either%20periodic%20or%20aperiodic.
  
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_phonetics
 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_phonetics
 
*http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/index.html
 
 
*http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Phonetics/Acoustics/Acoustics.html
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 21:05, 25 October 2020

Acoustic phonetics is the study of the physical properties of speech sounds; these include frequency, amplitude, pitch, etc. Because they exist in a continuous space, vowels are more reliably described with their acoustic features than the movement of articulators. Vowels are normally characterized by the format frequencies (F1, F2, F3) intrinsic to the shape of the vocal tract that creates a particular vocal sound; the source-filter model is often used to explore this phenomenon. Formant frequencies and other physical speech cues like frication, aspiration, and voicing can be analyzed by their waveforms or spectrograms.

This subfield of phonetics in particular is vital to developing speech technologies that interpret and reproduce the human speech stream.

See also

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References