sONOGRAMS

[clairehutchinson]

Can anyone tell me where I can have a Sonogram made from a piece of speech? It would need to show frequency, time and possibly intensity although the first two scales are essential. Alternatively does anyone know another way of graphically representing speech (in the way that musical notation graphically represents music) in a manner that the image may be read or reproduced by a knowledgeable person from the image.

[Rick Sarson]

Try this www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~amyi/mate/esps.html and also this www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ Or if you know a sound engineer with Smaart you could try fiddling with that as there are a variety of ways of repesenting audio waveforms and printing them out. They do a 30 day free trial here www.eaw.com/products/software/EAWSmaart/index.html It is a complex program and you will have a much easier time if you can get hold of someone who knows how to use it well. I would be interested to hear why you need to do this and also how you get on?

[Rick Sarson]

Also if you know anyone in a linguistics department at a university they muck about with this sort of thing.