ECE3260 2004

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Vocal Organs
Pharynx
Larynx
Epiglottis
Thyroid
Arytnoids
Vocal folds

Vocal Tract
Acoustic phonetics
Articulation of speech
Phonemes
Plosive
Fricatives
Alveolar
Palatal
Velar

Resonances in vocal tract

Formants
Models of vocal tract
Studies of the vocal tract
Prosodic features of speech

Fonix

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Analysis of speech
Oscilloscope
Spectrum analyzer
Spectrograph
3-D plot

Speech recognition
Recognition of vowels
Recognition of consonants
Filtered speech & noisy environments
Coarticulation
Voiceprints

Synthesis of speech
Formant synthesis (vocoder)
LPCLinear Predictive Coding
Sampling

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Formants and pitch

Difference between spoken and sung vowels
Singer's formant
Formant tuning by sopranos

Breathing and air flow

Tidal volume
Inspiratory reserve volume
Residual volume
Vital capacity

Registers, voices, and muscles

Falsetto
Other factors influencing spectra of sung notes
Choir singing