Jolanta Bachan

Academic Calendar 2023/2024

Please, bring your headphones to the class.

1. 2024-02-29: Introduction to Experimental Phonetics
2. 2024-03-07: Introduction to Experimental Phonetics
   Examples for download:
   • English: If you go to heaven, then you've nothing to worry about. IrishmansPhilosophy_exercise.wav and IrishmansPhilosophy_exercise.TextGrid
   • Polish: Protokół przesłuchania podejrzanego. 01.wav, 01.TextGrid - a recording with annotation by a native-speaker of Polish
   • Polish: Na szczęście myśl o przeprowadzce była tylko chwilowa i Gosia będzie nadal z nami mieszkać. E0496_exercise.wav and E0496_exercise.TextGrid
   • English:
   • "The Tiger and the Mouse", a recording by a native-speaker of English
   • Kazakh recordings, source: youtube.com
   • Uzbek recordings, source: youtube.com
3. 2024-03-14: Phonetics as a scientific study of speech - original slides by Prof. Agnieszka Wagner
4. 2024-03-21: The vocal tract and initiation of speech: anatomy and physiology - original slides by Prof. Agnieszka Wagner
5. 2024-04-04: Airstream mechanisms and phonation types - original slides by Prof. Agnieszka Wagner
6. 2024-04-11: Shift of pitch contour and other modifications

   1. Read in sound file (WAV format) to Praat.
   2. Mark with the cursor the Sound file from the Object list and choose from the right menu: Manipulate → To Manipulation.
   3. Select with the cursor the Manipulation file and go to: View & Edit.
   4. On the edited Manipulation file mark the whole contour with the cursor and from the top menu select: Pitch → Shift pitch frequencies.
   5. In the pop-up menu write the amount of frequency shift (the default unit is Hertz).
   6. Close the window with the edited Manipulation file.
   7. Select the Manipulation file from the Object list and choose: Get resynthesis (overlap-add) from the right menu.
   8. Save the new Sound file, for example by giving it the _synth extension to differentiate it from the original Sound file.

   Please, experiment also with functions on the button Convert: Lengthen (overlap-add), Deepen band modulation, Change gender.

   Examples for download:
   • 01_female_s.wav, 01_female_q.wav
7. 2024-04-18: Students' own work on their experiments and the final reports
8. 2024-04-25: Students' own work on their experiments and the final reports

   Exporting TextGrid file format to CSV format, textgrid2csv converter.

9. 2024-05-09: Students' own work on their experiments and the final reports
10. 2024-05-16: Students' own work on their experiments and the final reports
11. 2024-05-23: Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis
    MBROLA installer
    en1 voice
    pl1 voice
    Other Mbrola voices
12. 2024-06-06: Students' own work on their experiments and the final reports
13. 2024-06-13: Presentations of students' final reports
14. 2024-06-17: Presentations of students' final reports
15. 2024-06-20: Presentations of students' final reports