Speech Analysis Software

[Alex Enkerli]

Choice of speech analysis software depends on your platform and the
type of analysis you want to do (apart from envelope- and
pitch-tracking). My first bet for your needs would be Praat, a very
flexible cross-platform program for speech analysis. Not only is it
relatively cheap ($150) but you can access a feature-complete version
by contacting the author.
http://fonsg3.let.uva.nl/praat
Steven Bird at UPenn has several pages devoted to linguistic
software, including summaries. Here's one of them.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/

And here is a rather crude list of sound analysis software solutions
I compiled over a year ago. It's mostly Mac-biased but does include
some cross-platform programs as well as a few Windows and Unix
packages. Feel free to add to it if you have suggestions.
Canary: http://www.ornith.cornell.edu/brp/CanaryInfo.html
SpectraFoo Complete: http://www.mhlabs.com/documents/rad3spec/specSFC.shtml
SoundView: http://www.peabody-digital.com/products/index.html
Mac the Scope: http://www.channld.com/mts.html
Max and MSP: http://www.cycling74.com/products/bundle.html
SoundScope 2.16: http://www.gwinst.com/web-pages/SoS.html
Intelligent Speech Analyser: http://www.sci.fi/~pitchsys/index.html
Audiosculpt:
http://www.ircam.fr/produits/logiciels/log-forum/AudioSculpt-e.html
Lemur: http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/Lemur/AboutLemur.html
SoundHack: http://shoko.calarts.edu/~tre/SndHckDoc/
Signalyze: http://agoralang.com/signalyze.html
Csound/Cecilia: http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/CEC/
SoundView: http://www.physics.swri.edu/SoundView/
Syd: http://www.jbum.com/jbum/syd/
AutoScore: http://www.wildcat.com/Pages/AutoscoreMain.htm
PAZ: http://www.waves.com/htmls/prods/indi/paz.html
PsySound: http://members.tripod.com/~densil/
Armadillo: ftp://cmp-nxt1.music.uiuc.edu/pub/armadillo/armadillo.sit
Spectrum Analyser:
http://www.gel.ulaval.ca/~jgenest/DaffySoft/Spectrum%20Analyser/spectrumAnalyser.html
D-SoundPro: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sdaino/

Windows and Unix:
Winpitch: http://www.winpitch.com
MES-Signaix: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/ext/projects/mes_signaix.htm/
Phonedit: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/lpl/valorisation/phonedi.htm
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Alex Enkerli
Doctoral Student
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Indiana University