Speech Analysis and Phonetics
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Speech Analysis and Phonetics
Four programs related to speech analysis and phonetics are listed here: CECIL, Speech Analysis Tools, Signalyze, and FindPhone. CECIL is a speech analysis program especially appropriate for field use. Speech Analysis Tools have replaced the Windows version of CECIL. Signalyze is an excellent, if pricey, speech analysis tool, which can also be immensely useful in the field. FindPhone is useful for doing basic distributional analysis of phonetic forms.
Also listed here are fonts for linguistic use (Encore IPA Fonts, Encore Fonts) and keyboard utilities for typing these fonts (KeyMan, SILKey).
CECIL
System for doing acoustic speech analysis, mainly tone and stress analysis; displays waveform, fundamental frequency (pitch), and amplitude (stress), spectrograms and spectra. The Windows version has been replaced by the Speech Analysis Tools.
- Systems supported: DOS (requires CECIL hardware interface), Windows (requires a standard Windows sound card), Macintosh
- Current version:DOS: 2.1, Windows: 2.2, Macintosh: 0.8.3 Beta
- Developer: JAARS ICTS
- Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500, e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org.
- Price: DOS version: $150 (hardware, software, manuals), Windows version: $2 (software only), or download from URL below
- Review: Hunt, Geoffrey. 1988. "Tone and stress analysis by computer", Notes on Linguistics 41:14-18 [Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics].
- URLs:
- http://www.jaars.org/icts/softdev.htm
- http://www.jaars.org/icts/software.htm
Speech Analysis Tools
Two components of the Speech Analysis Tools are presently available:
- Speech Analyzer - a program for viewing speech waveforms and adding a transcription
- Speech Manager - a phonetic database program which uses IPA charts to index the data
- Systems supported: Windows
- Current version:Speech Analyzer 1.06, Speech Manager 1.02
- Developer: JAARS ICTS
- Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500, e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org.
- Price: Free if downloaded from the URL below
- URLs:
- http://www.jaars.org/icts/softdev.htm
- http://www.jaars.org/icts/software.htm
Encore IPA fonts
A set of scalable IPA fonts containing the full International Phonetic Alphabet with 1990 and 1993 revisions.
- Systems supported: Windows and Macintosh
- Current version: SIL IPA Fonts 1.2, SIL IPA93 Fonts 2.0
- Developer: Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500, e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org.
Also available electronically from the URL below.
- Price: Free if downloaded from the URL below
- URL: http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html
Encore fonts
A library of over 1300 phonetic characters and linguistic symbols
that can be used to create customized, scalable fonts in either
PostScript Type 1 or TrueType formats.
- Systems supported: Windows and Macintosh
- Current version: 3.0
- Developer: Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500, e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org.
- Price: Individual license: $100, site license: $250
- URL: http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore.html
FindPhone
Interactive, menu-driven program for DOS that performs distributional analysis of phonetic data transcribed in IPA.
- Systems supported: DOS
- Current version: 6.0
- Developer: David Bevan, Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500, e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org.
- Price: $38
- Documentation: David Bevan. 1995. FindPhone User's Guide:
Phonological Analysis for the Field Linguist. Summer Institute
of Linguistics.
- Review: Hunt, Geoffrey. 1992. "A good phonology program",
Notes on Linguistics 57:4-10 [Dallas, TX: Summer Institute
of Linguistics].
- URL: http://www.sil.org/computing/findphone/findphone.html
KeyMan
Keyboard remapping utility.
- Systems supported: Windows 3.x and Windows 95
- Current version: 3.2
- Developer: Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500, e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org.
Also available electronically via the URL below.
- Price: Free if downloaded from the URL below
- URLs:http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/keyman.html
Signalyze
An integrated speech signal analysis application for the Macintosh.
- Systems supported: Macintosh
- Current version: 3.0
- Developer: Eric Keller
- Distributor: Agora Language Marketplace, 91 Baldwin Street, Charlestown, MA 02129-1423, fax (617) 242-5534, e-mail office@agoralang.com.
- Price: Individual license: $250, departmental license: $500
- URL: http://agoralang.com/signalyze.html
SILKey
Keyboard remapping utility.
- Systems supported: Macintosh
- Current version: 1.2
- Developer: Summer Institute of Linguistics
- Distributor: ICTS, Attn: Customer Services, Box 248, Waxhaw, NC, 28173, USA, US & Canada orders only: (800) 421-8024, overseas orders: (704) 843-6085, fax (704) 843-6500,
e-mail computer_sales_jaars@sil.org.
Also available electronically via the URL below.
- Price: Free if downloaded from the URL below
- URL: http://www.sil.org/computing/silkey.html
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