Phonetics links

Thanks to Karen Steffen Chung and the LINGUIST-L for assembling this list!

I've added some stuff, and organized it a bit. Please contact me if you've got suggestions for additions.

Anatomy and articulation

• The vocal tract
• Speech organs (great graphics; includes downloadable QuickTime movie of x-ray speech)
• X-Ray film database for speech research (Amazing x-ray videos of people talking)
• 3-D vocal tract MRI gallery (slow loading; good graphics and sound files)
• Movement of articulators
• Multiple articulations

Acoustics and spectrography

• Sound waves
• Gas-altered speech:
  • Helium Voice (linked to sound file with poor audio quality)
  • Sulfur Hexafluoride Voice
• Intro to speech waves and spectrograms (Lund. Sweden)
• cslu - Center for Spoken Language Understanding: spectrogram tutorial, speech toolkit
• Real time spectrogram (online spectrogram includes link to required Snack 16 plug-in; take care not to crash it...or reboot! But it's simple and works dandy; exercises included)
• Monthly mystery spectrogram website (on holiday, but archives are available)
• Spectrogram reading: German
• The vOICe Sonification Applet
• Spectrogram version of preceding site

Prosody

• Stress system database
• Intro to prosody: chunking, focus, pitch (tutorial)
• Prosody and intonation sites (Saarbruecken; German, other languages)

Coarticulation

• Coarticulation
• Articulatory-Acoustic Correlations in Coarticulatory Processes: a Cross-Language Investigation

Voice

• Vocal cords in action: five still photos
• Vocal cords vibrating
• Epiglottis in motion/pharyngeal stops
• Examining of larynx - how vocal cords can be photographed
• Methods of examining larynx (further methods; vocal cords in motion)
• Plosives 2: Voicing onset time and aspiration (tutorial)
• Types of phonation: creaky, breathy, harsh, falsetto

Transcription

• The International Phonetic Alphabet
• Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) homepage (IPA Help is excellent; also IPA fonts, many tools)
• The distinctive vowel sounds of British and American English (click to hear the sounds)
• Unstressed vowels and their transcription

Hearing

• The Human Ear: one page with picture, formulas
• The Ear: Instrument of Hearing

Airstream mechanisms

• Respiration and airstream mechanisms
• Clicks, ejectives, etc. in many languages (Ladefoged)
• Airstream mechanisms and phonation types: main points (Ladefoged)
• NWU: Airstream mechanisms

Other lists of phonetics links

• Linguistics and Phonetics Worldwide (Stuttgart)
• Link list of phonetics, speech and acoustics (Helsinki)
• Phonetics and speech: Some bookmarks (Vienna)
• Studying phonetics on the Net: excellent links (some already in this list)
• Speech research (USC): lots of links to other labs, institutions, research institutes....

Misc. & stuff that I haven't gotten around to sorting yet

• Online phonetics course (U of Lausanne, Switzerland; translated from French)
• What is linguistics/phonetics? (Bulleted graphics; handy for first day of class)
• Introduction to the fields of linguistics
• SIPhTrA voicing basics tutorial
• Plosives 1: basics (tutorial)
• Sound machines: require MS Internet Explorer
• Speech Internet dictionary home page
• Language miniatures: whistled speech
• Videos available from the Acoustical Society of America
• Adjuncts to Ladefoged's A course in phonetics