Software Details
| Title: | Acoustic Recording Software for Speech Production |
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| Submitter: | Geoffrey Stewart Morrison |
| Description: | Announcing the release of: Acoustic Recording Software for Speech Production Experiments by Geoffrey Stewart Morrison This free software presents written prompts onscreen and records spoken responses. Prompts are presented in randomised blocks and the number of repetitions can be selected. The researcher controls the progress of the experiment and monitors the quality of the recording. For each response recording, a raw waveform is displayed onscreen, and the researcher has the option of listening to the recording (the speaker does not hear the playback), accepting the recording, rejecting the recording, or quitting the experiment. If a recording is rejected, the prompt is presented again later in the experiment. This ensures that the required number of tokens are recorded with acceptable quality. Each recording is saved to a separate file using a systematic file-naming convention for easy processing in acoustic analysis software. If the experiment is interrupted no data are lost. If the experiment is resumed the speaker can either complete the missing prompts only or can start again at the beginning. Prior to the experiment, the instructions are presented in written form onscreen, and in audio form from prerecorded readings of the instructions. The speaker also completes a short practice version of the experiment. The software runs under 32-bit Windows XP (Tablet version of XP works, don’t know whether it will run under Vista). The software is distributed as compiled Matlab (a Matlab licence is NOT required). Version 6 has been field-tested (data collected from 35 speakers) and found to be stable. Future versions may include additional features requested by users. Additional information and downloads available from the programmer’s website: http://cns.bu.edu/~gsm2/ (URL will change later this year) Development of this software was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and by the Department of Cognitive & Neural Systems, Boston University. |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Language Documentation Phonetics Phonology |
| LL Issue: | 18.1672 |
| Date Posted: | 31-May-2007 |
