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Anatomy & Physiology of the Speech Mechanism:

Web Anatomy
A collection of study aids for entry-level anatomy and physiology students - University of Minnesota.

The Visual Human Project
Complete detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and femal human bodies.

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Fonts

SIL International (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
IPA fonts available to the general linguistic community.

University College London (UCL) Department OF Phonetics & Linguistics
The IPA-SAM phonetic fonts - freely downloadable.

International Phonetic Association.
International Phonetic Association's IPA Fonts Page.

Tomasz P. Szynalski's IPA Type IT page
Allows you to easily type phonetic transcriptions of English words in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). You can edit your text in the box and then copy it to your e-mail application, word processor, etc.

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Phonetics:

The University of Iowa's Phonetic Fash Animation Project
FLASH animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, Spanish and German.

A Course in Phonetics by Peter Ladefoged
Peter Ladefoged's supplimental materials for his Course in Phonetics.

The International Phonetic Assocaition
The latest version of the IPA Alphabet published in 2005.

UCLA Phonetics Lab Data
UCLA Phonetics Laboratory has collected recordings of hundreds of languages providing source materials for phonetic and phonological teaching and research.

The Speech Accent Archive
The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds.

Resources For Studying Spoken English
Good overview of phonology of the English language with online resources.

Varieties of English
Language Samples Project - University of Arizona

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Acoustic Phonetics:

Macquarie University Speech Science Resource
Speech Acoustics Topics

English Phonetics & Phonological Theory
Dan Mateescu Phonetics & Phonological Theory Information

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Physiologic Phonetics:

Physics & Physiology of Speech
Basic information about speech physiology.

Speech Physiology Resources
Macquarie University Speech Science Resource

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Speech Perception:

Speech Perception & Learning Laboratory
Explore auditory demonstrations of speech perception phenomena and hear examples of stimuli used in our studies.

Psycholinguistics/Speech Perception
The laboratory at the Univeristy of Iowa is engaged in several projects aimed at enhancing speech and music perception in individuals with hearing loss

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Phonetic Science Instrumentation:

PRAAT
Praat (Dutch for 'talk') is currently among the most popular of free, downloadable speech analysis software package.

PRAAT Tutorial
Tutorial for the Praat program

Wavesufer
WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation.

SIL Speech Analyzer
Speech Analyzer is a computer program for acoustic analysis of speech sounds.

UCL Enhance
UCL Enhance is a program for the enhancement of the intelligibility of speech recordings.

Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds including speech.

Speech Filing System
SFS 4/Windows is a free computing environment for PCs for conducting research into the nature of speech.

SFS/RTSPECT
RTSPECT is a free program for displaying a real time waveform and spectrum display of an audio signal.

SFS/ESYSTEM
With ESYSTEM you can generate simple signals such as sinewaves, pulses, pulse trains, sawtooth and noise; you can pass them though systems such as an amplifier, a resonator, a low-pass, high-pass or band-pass filter, or a vocal tract model.

SFS/ESYNTH
ESynth is a free program designed to explain the harmonic analysis and synthesis of signals.

SFS/BROWSE
BROWSE is a program for browsing audio recordings.

Shure Pro Audio Tech Support
Interfacing Professional Microphones to Computer Sound Cards.

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Forensic Phonetics:

Helen Fraser’s website
A useful overview of the practices of forensic phonetics.

Paul Foulkes’s on Forensic Phonetics
Forensic phonetics & sociolinguistics: an overview by Paul Foulkes (pdf file).

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Phonetic Sciences & Related Organizations

American Association of Phonetics Sciences (AAPS)
Supports and encourages teaching, learning, and research in phonetic sciences and promotes cooperative research among scholars and scientists.

International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS)
ISPhS is an international society serving phoneticians from all over the world.

The International Phonetic Association
The IPA is the major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
ASHA is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.

The Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
The ASA has a world-wide preeminence in the field of acoustics.

The International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)
A forum for the interchange of ideas and information on practice, development and research in forensic phonetics and acoustics.

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Other:

Macquarie University Speech Science Resource Pages
Speech Synthesis Topics

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