Speech Acoustics Online Short Course
What is a formant?
What is a sine wave?
What is a relatively easy way to estimate the formant frequency for a given vocal tract area function?
Physical and Linguistic Aspects of Speech Production
by R. S. McGowan
“Physical and Linguistic Aspects of Speech Production” summarizes physical acoustic theory and source mechanics in speech. Examples show how physical theory can be used to derive important results in linguistics.
On Formants
by R. S. McGowan
“On Formants” is intended for phoneticians and others interested in speech production. We present ways of thinking of the relationship between vocal tract shape and formants that have never been presented before to researchers in phonetics.
Acoustics of Speech Production
by R. S. McGowan
“Acoustics of Speech Production” provides an understandable description of the fundamental acoustics of the vocal tract. There are many simulations with graphical presentations of acoustic wave motion and other phenomena.