This page contains approximately 175 links to resources for learning fundamental concepts and conducting research in phonetics. For details about the design and organization of this page, see the final Appendix section.

Highlighted resource: Learn about intonation on the Possible Phrase-final Tonal Configurations in American English page.

See Extensive Websites for Learning Phonetics (Education page) for many comprehensive resources, not specific to any one topic.


+

Vocal tract anatomy

-

Vocal tract anatomy

Sagittal sections

Vowel articulation

Movement and motor control

Imaging


+

International Phonetic Alphabet

-

International Phonetic Alphabet

General information and resources

Interactive (click-to-hear) IPA charts

Quizzing yourself

Note: Both of the above resources are based on British English.

Tools for typing/displaying the IPA


+

Airstream/laryngeal contrasts

-

Airstream/laryngeal contrasts

Airstream mechanisms

Clicks

Larynx


+

Intonation and prosody

-

Intonation and prosody

General introductions to prosody

Listen to the same English words/phrases pronounced with varying intonation patterns

Learn more about the English intonation system

Intonation systems of various other languages


+

Acoustic phonetics

-

Acoustic phonetics

General acoustics

Speech acoustics

Spectrograms

Pedagogical software

  • Illustrating basic theory
    • ESYSTEM: Browser application to generate various kinds of sources and pass them through various kinds of filters
    • Formant Synthesis Demo: Downloadable program for interactively illustrating formant synthesis
  • Real-time visualization software
  • Convert spectrograms and other images into sound

+

Hearing and speech perception

-

Hearing and speech perception

Hearing

Speech perception


+

Speech synthesis and speech recognition

-

Speech synthesis and speech recognition

Learning about speech synthesis

Demos of speech synthesis

Demos of speech recognition


+

Data and resources for research

-

Data and resources for research

Lexical resources for designing experiments

Recording tips

Typological databases


+

Freely-available speech datasets

-

Freely-available speech datasets

While most corpora are sold commercially (many by the Linguistic Data Consortium), speech datasets are increasingly being distributed online for free. The websites linked below contain speech data that can either be browsed/downloaded immediately or require only a free registration process.

Repositories with holdings for various languages

Speech datasets for English

Isolated words/syllables

American English

British English

World Englishes

Non-native speakers

With electroglottograph (EGG) data:

Speech datasets for other specific languages

  • Japanese: C-ORAL-JAPONÉS: 12+ hours of monologues, dialogues and conversations
  • Turkish: Spoken Turkish Corpus: Radio recordings; Extensive demo version can be downloaded for free

+

Appendix: Design and organization of this page

-

Appendix: Design and organization of this page

The majority of the links on this page point to external websites included in the large list of many hundreds of links from Joaquim Llisterri (Autonomous University of Barcelona) or other collections of links contained therein.

The links on this page here were hand-selected to be maximally useful as a supplement a graduate-level course in linguistic phonetics where English is the medium of instruction. The links are grouped by the different areas in which they typically arise in such a context.

The overall goal is to be a well-organized portal to only the most important resources, not to comprehensively index the contents of each site. As such, there is generally only one link per domain (at the highest level of the website relevant for phonetics).

Also, due to the nature of YouTube and Wikipedia, nothing from those sites is linked here. However, a large body of excellent material can be found there (e.g. videos of the cardinal vowels and laryngeal anatomy on YouTube).

Mixed in with the external links are a handful of PDFs and webpages developed and hosted locally at Indiana University. PDFs in this category are marked as [Internal, PDF]. Likewise, webpages that pop up in a separate window are marked with [Internal, Pop-up].