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Speech Analyzer

Sat, 07/04/2009 - 12:08 — languist
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Speech Analyzer is a computer program for acoustic analysis of speech sounds.
You can use Speech Analyzer to do the following tasks:

  • Perform fundamental frequency, spectrographic and spectral analysis, and duration measurements.
  • Add phonemic, orthographic, tone, and gloss transcriptions to phonetic transcriptions in an interlinear format.
  • Perform ethnomusicological analysis of music recordings.
  • Use slowed playback, repeat loops and overlays to assist with perception and mimicry of sounds for language learning.

Version

 3.0.1

Developer

 SIL

Supported
none

Supported Operating Systems

 Windows

Unicode Support
Yes

Suitable tasks
  • SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Surveying and assessing the sociolinguistic situation
  • Collect word lists using IPA transcription and/or audio recording
  • LANGUAGE LEARNING
  • Test certain aspects of pronunciation (tone, intonation, etc.)
  • ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
  • Record examples of local music as electronic audio
  • Analyze examples of local music
  • LINGUISTICS
  • Record and play back utterances as electronic audio
  • Analyze stress, intonation and tone
  • Collect, transcribe and translate audiorecordings of natural texts (and other texts/utterances)
  • Interlinearize natural texts without a lexical database
  • COMMON: Common Tasks and Foundational Technologies/Utilities
  • Archive data in Unicode in a long-life file format (e.g. XML)

Interface Language
English

License
SIL Language Freeware EULA

Download Page
http://www.sil.org/computing/sa/sa_download.htm

Website
http://www.sil.org/computing/sa/index.htm

User Group

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