Phonetics resources
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This is a list of web sites that might be useful in an introductory phonetics course for classroom demos or homework assignments; most of these sites include audio, images, or interactive material. The list began in 2000 with some of the phonetics resources compiled by Karen Steffen Chung (see LINGUIST List posts 11.1812, 11.1869, and 11.1964). It has grown to include other sites that I have found via LINGUIST List posts, web searches, and word-of-mouth — students in my Linguistic Phonetics and Introduction to Language courses have discovered some fantastic links. Many thanks to the people and organizations who designed the sites that appear on this list, and to Jaye Padgett for originally suggesting that I investigate what phonetics resources might be available online.
I update this page about once a year to fix or remove broken links.
I would also welcome suggestions
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Contents
(0)
Whole phonetics courses with considerable online materials
(1)
Vocal-tract anatomy and diagrams
(2)
The larynx, phonation, and VOT
(3)
The vocal tract in action: video clips and animations
(4)
Basic acoustics
(5)
Spectrograms, acoustic phonetics, and speech synthesis
(6)
Speech perception and audiology
(7)
Properties of consonants
(8)
Audio examples of individual speech sounds
(9)
Audio examples of non-English words and texts
(10)
Varieties of English
(11)
IPA resources: charts, symbols, transcription, fonts
(12)
Prosody, tone, and intonation
(13)
Other useful resources for phonetics/phonology
(0) Whole phonetics courses with considerable online materials
(Relevant subunits also referenced in other sections of this document)
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/contents.html
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/acip/
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/contents.html
http://www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/
http://audiufon.hum.uu.nl/e_index.html
(1) Vocal-tract anatomy and diagrams
http://www.mexico.sil.org/publications/articulation/organs-of-articulation
Specify properties of oral/nasal stops and fricatives;
see the corresponding IPA symbol and vocal-tract
configuration
http://smu-facweb.smu.ca/~s0949176/sammy/
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/anatomy/anatomy.html
https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/bluelink/curricula/first-year-dental-curriculum?authuser=0
(2) The larynx, phonation, and VOT
2.1 Anatomy of the larynx
Includes X-ray diagrams, anatomical models, animations, and more
https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/itc/hs/medical/anatomy_resources/anatomy/larynx/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070821141206/http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/qtvr/qtvr_larynx.html
http://faculty.tcc.edu/MMitchell/142-Models/142-Models-Resp/LA1-larynx-ant.htm
http://faculty.tcc.edu/MMitchell/142-Models/142-Models-Resp/LA1-larynx-post.htm
http://faculty.tcc.edu/MMitchell/142-Models/142-Models-Resp/LA1-larynx-lat.htm
http://faculty.tcc.edu/MMitchell/142-Models/142-Models-Resp/LA1-larynx-post-CU.htm
2.2 Images of the larynx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4evDGLgjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cARrJoDDUVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tlpkdq8a8c
Animation of layngeal anatomy and function
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b89RSYCaUBo
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page13a.htm
2.3 Voicing, phonation types, VOT
http://www.ncvs.org/ncvs/tutorials/voiceprod/tutorial/model.html
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~jcoleman/mucosa_wave.GIF
Includes diagrams of larynx; waveforms
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wtutor?tutorial=siphtra/vb1.htm
Includes audio files of VOT contrasts
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/johnm/siphtra/plostut2/plostut2.htm
Includes audio and TextGrid files for languages studied in the project,
as well as quantitative data and other materials
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/voiceproject/voice.html
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/EGG/page10.htm
http://audiufon.hum.uu.nl/data/e_zangstem.html
(3) The vocal tract in action: video clips and animations
http://sail.usc.edu/span/spanipa.html
Ultrasound and MRI images of speech, plus information
about these techniques
http://www.seeingspeech.ac.uk/
Information about imaging with ultrasound, MRI, and electropalatography, with images and videos
http://www.dental.umaryland.edu/speech/research/
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/mri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOwCf835YA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvvn-ZVdeqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4QShGCr588
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter11/chapter11.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtGHv1a4b48
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/acip/appendix/vocal_tracts/KNS.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcNMCB-Gsn8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXM3gNxGO2M
http://swphonetics.com/coarticulation/exbulg/
(4) Basic acoustics
http://zonalandeducation.com/mstm/physics/waves/waves.html
http://zonalandeducation.com/mstm/physics/waves/waveAdder/WaveAdder1.html
http://zonalandeducation.com/mstm/physics/waves/standingWaves/standingWaves.html
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/waves/
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/acoustics/time_domain.html
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/acoustics/freq_domain.html
Much detailed information about music acoustics,
including audio files of various instruments
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/
http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos.html
Explicitly relates actual particle movement to displacement and pressure curves
http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/StandingWaves/StandingWaves.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/soucon.html#soucon
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/dbcon.html#c1
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/audio/audiocon.html#c1
(5) Spectrograms, acoustic phonetics, and speech synthesis
5.1 Spectrograms
Introduction to spectrograms and a new spectrogram to
try "reading" each month (plus past examples, with solutions given)
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~robh/
5.2 Acoustic phonetics and the source-filter model
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/production/source.htm
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/vocal_vowels/vocal_vowels.html
Good for class demo; you can synthesize online
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis/
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis/vowels.html
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/tutorials/synthesis/ceevees.html
Download and use offline
http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/formant/
5.3 Synthetic speech
Different parts of the signal can be played separately
(i.e., each formant, or high-frequency fricative noise)
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter7/abirdinthehand.html
Includes audio of synthesized sentences
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/featured/patplay.html
Audio files to accompany the historical review in Klatt (1987)
https://acousticstoday.org/klatts-speech-synthesis-a/
https://acousticstoday.org/klatts-speech-synthesis-b/
https://acousticstoday.org/klatts-speech-synthesis-c/
https://acousticstoday.org/klatts-speech-synthesis-d/
http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/hartmut/kemplne.htm
5.4 Vowel plotting software
https://github.com/rogthefrog/JPlotFormants
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wlabov/Plotnik.html
(6) Speech perception and audiology
6.1 Sound and hearing
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/soucon.html#soucon
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/ear.html#c1
Includes drawings and electron micrographs of the ear and cochlea
http://www.cochlea.org/en
http://www.cochlea.org/en/spe/ear-overview.html
http://www.cochlea.eu/en/cochlea
http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/animations/
6.2 Online demos of speech perception experiments
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~malcolm/interval/1997-056/VowelQuality.html
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter10/percpetial.html
6.3 Audiovisual speech perception (McGurk effect, etc.)
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~rosenblu/lab-index.html
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~rosenblu/VSMcGurk.html
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~rosenblu/VSMcGurk.v1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73LE1vKGfy4&NR=1
http://psyc-experiments.com/mmtbn/language/sPerception/McGurk1.html
(7) Properties of consonants
Specify properties of oral/nasal stops and fricatives;
see the corresponding IPA symbol and vocal-tract
configuration
http://smu-facweb.smu.ca/~s0949176/sammy/
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/practice/consonant/d2intro.htm
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wtutor?tutorial=siphtra/plostut1/plostut1.htm
(8) Audio examples of individual speech sounds
8.1 Interactive IPA charts with illustrative sound files
Includes audio and images of spectrograms
for individual speech sounds
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/acip/
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/IPAlab.htm
http://jbdowse.com/ipa
8.2 Speech sounds illustrated in isolation
http://sail.usc.edu/span/spanipa.html
http://audiufon.hum.uu.nl/data/e_cardinal_vowels.html
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter9/cardinal/cardinal.html
8.3 Speech sounds illustrated in context (words)
(See also language examples in (9) and (10))
Example words illustrating sounds from a wide variety of languages
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/languageindex.html
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter13/chapter13.html
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/vowels/chapter14/chapter14.html
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/
https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/MOAP/
(9) Audio examples of non-English words and texts
9.1 Multiple languages
http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/
http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/
https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/content/ipa-handbook-downloads
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/
https://pressroom.rferl.org/navigation/allsites
http://aflat.org/alorg/
http://www.everytongue.com/list1-on-line-recordings.htm
9.2 Individual languages (a sample of convenience)
http://www.sci.fi/~kajun/finns/
http://audiufon.hum.uu.nl/data/e_onbekende_taal.html
http://www.hf.ntnu.no/nos/
http://www.cascadilla.com/ssaa/index.html
http://www.pronouncement.com/pronunci.htm
(10) Varieties of English
10.1 English worldwide
Includes MP3 audio files of scripted and
spontaneous speech representing dialects of English worldwide
as well as non-native accents
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/
Audio files recorded by English speakers from around the world; also includes formant plots for a subset of speakers
http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml
Some varieties discussed, but not all, have audio files
https://web.archive.org/web/20130415050843/http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/
Audio files of the same English text
read by speakers from different native-language backgrounds,
with IPA transcriptions of their English pronunciation and
(in some cases) information about the native-language
phonological system
http://accent.gmu.edu/
10.2 USA English
Map with text discussion of characteristics of the
dialects; apparently no audio files
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NationalMap.html
Includes videos illustrating varieties of North Carolina English
(as well as Spanish and Cherokee)
http://linguistics.chass.ncsu.edu/thinkanddo/dialecteducation.php
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/vowels.html
10.3 Canadian English
http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/raising.html
10.4 UK English
Includes descriptions, sound files, and dialect maps
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/
From a BBC program on language and dialects in the UK; includes articles, interviews, audio files,
and dialect maps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/
Includes audio files and intonation transcriptions of
seven British English dialects
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/files/apps/IViE/
http://davidbrett.it/index.php?id=vs
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/vowels.html
10.5 New Zealand and Australia English
http://www.ualberta.ca/~johnnewm/NZEnglish/home.html
https://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-human-sciences/departments-and-centres/department-of-linguistics/our-research/phonetics-and-phonology/speech/australian-english-pronunciation-and-transcription
(11) IPA resources: charts, symbols, transcription, fonts
11.1 IPA charts and general information
Includes full and partial IPA charts, extended IPA symbols
for transcribing disordered speech, links to downloadable audio files,
and links to sites with IPA fonts
https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/
11.2 Practice with IPA symbols and transcription
Can hear audio and check transcription
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/phonetics/readings/readings.html
11.3 IPA fonts
http://scripts.sil.org/IPAhome
http://ipa4linguists.pbworks.com/w/page/4325763/Cool%20free%20IPA%20fonts%20to%20download
http://clauchau.free.fr/L/phonalph.html
11.4 Typing and displaying IPA characters
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Fonts/
https://users.castle.unc.edu/~jlsmith/ipa-fonts.html
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbols.htm
http://ipa4linguists.pbworks.com/
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm
Click on IPA chart and produce typed IPA symbols to copy/paste;
requires Unicode font
http://westonruter.github.io/ipa-chart/keyboard/
Click on IPA symbols and generate HTML code
for incorporating phonetic symbols into web pages as graphics files
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/ipa/
http://ipa.typeit.org/full/
http://www.blugs.com/IPA/
(12) Prosody, tone, and intonation
https://web.archive.org/web/20130218081131/http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~tobi/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-911-transcribing-prosodic-structure-of-spoken-utterances-with-tobi-january-iap-2006/
Includes audio files and intonation transcriptions of
seven British English dialects
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/files/apps/IViE/
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/04/spring/201/pow/powin.htm
(13) Other useful resources for phonetics/phonology
13.1 Online glossaries of phonetics/phonology/linguistics terms
http://www.mexico.sil.org/publications/articulation
http://blogjam.name/sid/
13.2 Resources for language typology and linguistic universals
http://wals.info/
http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/archive/intro/
http://www.yek.me.uk/vowels.html
https://metathesisinlanguage.osu.edu
13.3 Other resources
https://minimal-pairs.000webhostapp.com/
http://www.speechandhearing.net/laboratory/tools.php
Includes links to resources for acoustic analysis,
experiments, statistics, and other useful topics
http://indiana.edu/~phonlab/
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Titlepage/acoustics.htm