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Introduction to acoustic analysis of speech for beginners The 15th Introductory Course in Phonetics

May 6th, 2014
Date 1:00pm – 4:30pm, Sunday, June 1st. (coffee break included)
Topic Introduction to acoustic analysis of speech for beginners
Lecturer Professor Nobuaki Minematsu, Professor Daisuke Saito (University of Tokyo)
Venue University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus,
Faculty of Engineering Bldg.2, 10th floor, Room 101B(Electrical Meeting Room 5)

Address: 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656, Tokyo
Access to campus: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/map01_02_j.html
Access to building: http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_04_03_j.html
Organizer Phonetics Promotion Committee, Phonetic Society of Japan
Facilitator Professor Nobuaki Minematsu (University of Tokyo)
Fee Members and students: 1000 yen, Non-member: 2000 yen
Limitation 40
Please apply in advance. Applications will be closed when the number reaches 40.
How to apply Please send an e-mail to: psj_f@yahoo.co.jp Please write “Application for the 15th Introductory Course in Phonetics” in the e-mail subject. One e-mail should include information for only one applicant. Information to include in e-mail:
  • Name
  • Affiliation (company/university, faculty, department, major, year, etc.)
  • Member or Non-member of the Phonetic Society of Japan
  • Contact information (please indicate home or workplace, address, phone/fax number, email address, etc.)
  • E-mail address for emergency on June 1st, 2014
  • Requests for the course, if any.
Preparation
  1. Please bring a Windows or Mac laptop and a headset (microphone and headphone together on one device. Please see example at: http://www2.elecom.co.jp/multimedia/microphone/hs-hp15/index.asp). Power is available on venue.
  2. We will use a software called Wavesurfer. Please install and check its operation on your laptop prior to the lecture.
    (Wavesurfer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wavesurfer/)
Overview This course consists of lecture and practice. The course will be easy-to-understand, assuming that many of the participants have not performed acoustic analysis before (but have some experience of recording their own voice on the computer). The first half of the course will overview the mechanism of speech production, and explains the basics of acoustic analysis such as how to observe waveforms and spectrograms. The latter half will be an actual practice of recording and analyzing speech. The lecturer will use a Windows PC in the practice session, therefore the examples will also be shown on Windows. We suggest that those who are not confident in using computers bring a Windows PC instead of a Mac.