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Short description This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition and now includes an accompanying website. While maintaining Peter Ladefoged's expert writing and knowledge of sounds in language, Sandy Disner brings essential updates on topics such as speech technology. It outlines the acoustic components of speech and demonstrates speech synthesis describes text-to-speech systems and show how speech recognition systems work, and includes descriptions of the sounds of a wide variety of languages that are introduced on the accompanying website. The third edition also includes updates in speech technology.
From the contents Table of Web Content Author's Preface from First Edition Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgements from the Previous Editinos The International Phonetic Alphabet 1. Sounds and Languages 2. Pitch and Loudness 3. Vowel Contrasts 4. The Sounds of Vowels 5. Charting Vowels 6. The Sounds of Consonants 7. Acoustic Components of Speech 8. Talking Computers 9. Listening Computers 10. How We Listen to Speech 11. Making English Consonants 12. Making English Vowels 13. Actions of the Larynx 14. Consonants Around the World 15. Vowels Around the World 16. Putting Vowels and Consonants Together Glossary Further Reading Index