[Lexicog] graphic representation of sounds

[Danko Sipka]

There is an excellent free program called Praat (you can download it from:
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/). This program allows you to record a sound
and then generate its spectrogram, Fourier, represent its formants, etc.
These pictures can be used in both electronic and printed version of your
dictionary.
Best,

Danko

Danko Sipka
Associate Professor Research and Acting Director
Critical Languages Institute (http://www.asu.edu/cli)
Arizona State University
Danko.Sipka at asu.edu
http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka
phone: 480-965-7706
fax:480-965-0310


----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Janus" <janus005 at umn.edu>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:28 AM
Subject: [Lexicog] graphic representation of sounds


> I have just joined this group, and I must admit that the collection
> of links on the link page is fantastic. I am very impressed.
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> Just a small piece of background before I ask my question.
>
> I'm at the early stages of developing / writing a learners'
> dictionary for Norwegian -- I'll spare you most of the details and
> thoughts about this now, but maybe later....
>
> I plan to include digitized (or synthetic?) sound samples for all /
> most of the words. After all, learners need to hear the words, right?
> But I also want to show the sounds, probably in a modified IPA or
> some system.
>
> I'm searching for ideas to give a good graphic representation of the
> vowel length, syllable stress, and tone (Norwegian has two tonemes)
> -- all those three are related, and I'm  thinking here that perhaps
> animation (with the long or short part of the word stretching), and
> also showing up and down tone patterns. I definitely think this type
> of graphic would help learners (while they listen to the word, for
> example), but it has to be simple and clear.
>
> Do any subscribers have ideas of who to graphically represent
> pronunciation -- either / both on paper and on the computer screen.
> (My dictionary will be both paper and CD ROM / DVD.
>
> Thanks for any ideas, comments, pointers.
>
> Louis Janus
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