Chinglish

[Matthew Gordon]

You can't ever take variability out of the equation. Each human vocal tract
is unique. Your [i] will have different acoustic characteristics from mine
due simply to the fact that they're played on different instruments. In
fact, there is intraspeaker variation too; each time you pronounce an [i] it
will differ acoustically from the last time you pronounced one.


On 8/27/08 7:57 PM, "Tom Zurinskas" <truespel at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

> I would like to trust the numbers to identify vowels.  I've played with Praat
> (I assume the "aa" is pronuounced "ah" like "Saab" (foespeld ~aa in truespel).
> I'm not practiced at it but I find it hard to determine vowel identity by
> numbers or wave forms.  If this is possible with practice, it would be a good
> thing, taking human bias and variability out of the equation.
>
> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
> See truespel.com - and the 4 truespel books plus "Occasional Poems" at
> authorhouse.com.
>

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