Phonetics and Phonology

Acoustics of the vowel :

- Experiments concerning the physical characteristics of vowels: formants and pitches (F0), formant pattern ambiguity, formant number alteration. Important for all sciences related to speech, acoutsic phonetics, speech therapy and speech recognition.
Analytic Listening: A New Approach to Ear-Training :

- Paper on a method for ear-training and auditory skill assessment of students of phonetics.
Anatomy of the vocal tract :

- Diagram and descriptions of the places of articulation.
Auditory scales of frequency representation :

- Overview of conversion equations and suggestions as to when it is appropriate to use Hz, semi-tones, mel, bark, and ERB.
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary :

- Machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions.
Contrasted Phonology of English and Portuguese Vowels :

- English, Portuguese, and Spanish vowels are discussed, and possible errors of Portuguese-speaking students of English are examined.
English Conversational Grunts :

- Contains speech samples illustrating the phonetic diversity of non-lexical items in conversation, such as uh-huh, mm-hm, nn-hnn, nyeah, m-kay, together with discussion of their pragmatics.
Four Tones and Downtrend :

- Preliminary report on pitch realization in Mambila, a language with four level tones.
How to Pronounce "Ghoti" :

- Brief analysis of why "ghoti" may be pronounced as "fish".
Infography about Phonology :

- List of mostly print resources on phonology recommended by a professor who specializes in phonological research.
The Kiel Intonation Modell (KIM) :

- Paper on "The Kiel Intonation Model (KIM), its Implementation in TTS Synthesis and its Application to the Study of Spontaneous Speech."
Linguistic Annotation :

- Tools and formats for speech and text annotation
Linguistics and Phonetics Worldwide :

- Virtual library of linguistics and phonetics.
Magical Letter Page :

- Site regarding phonosemantics, the meaning of sound.
Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish :

- Animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English.
Phonological Atlas of North America :

- Results of a telephone survey of the major urbanized areas of the U.S. and Canada.
Prosody on the Web :

- Introduction to prosody, including chunking, focus, and pitch.
The Rhythmic Speech Museum :

- Concerns rhythm in speech.
Rutgers Optimality Archive :

- Contributed-content index of Optimality Theory information. Searchable or browseable data, submission and update forms, font and utility downloads, links to other collections.
Socrates :

- Links to internet resources in phonetics and speech communication.
Speech Accent Archive :

- Archive of foreign accents recorded in English. Phonetic transcriptions and phonological generalizations are provided.
Speech Internet Dictionary :

- Comprehensive dictionary of terms used in phonetics and linguistics
Speech Web Sites :

- Variety of links to mainly acoustics-related sites.
The SpeechDat Project :

- Database of recordings of speech in various languages.
Spoken Language Corpus :

- Summary of work on spoken language at Göteborg University, including discussion of Modified Standard Orthography (MSO). [by Allwood et al, Göteborg University]
Studying Phonetics on the Net :

- List of categorized links concerning the study of spoken English.
Talking Heads :

- Contains information concerning speech synthesis, vocal tract modeling, facial animation, and the McGurk effect.
Teaching English Intonation with a Visual Display of Fundamental Frequency :

- Paper on the use of fundamental frequency displays for teaching English intonation. [by Richard Stibbard]
Virtual Language Laboratory :

- Online language laboratory providing pronunciation practice and accent correction in a number of languages.
Vowels and Consonants :

- Collection of sound and speech examples of hundreds of languages and dialects. [by Peter Ladefoged, UCLA]