Right. Vowels and fricatives are pretty easy. It's the stops that are
the most difficult, because they have a different sound depending on
the adjacent vowel. You pretty much need to treat digraphs
(vowel-consonant sequences) as units. And no, I don't know how to do
it.
On Jun 20, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Gianni Pavan wrote:
> not easy... but it is possible to identify some spectrographic
> features to be linked to spoken letters or couples of them. In some
> cases it is easy... in other cases you don't see a specific section
> to be linked to a letter, but you see just a transition...
> you can try to label different sections... and then you can try to
> "fill the holes" to make a meaningful concatenation of letters...
> then you need to separate meaningful words... and concatenate them
> into a meaningful phrase...
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> vowels can be easily identified because of their clean harmonic
> structure
> u is the vowel with energy mostly concentrated on low frequency
> i is the one with energy mostly at high frequency
> sss can be easily identified because of the high frequency noise you
> see on the spectrogram...
>
> of course, an expert phonetician could help more,
> Gianni
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> At 14.43 20/06/2006, you wrote:
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>> To all recordists,
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>> Recent discussion concerning spectrograms prompts the following: I've
>> been making spectrograms of speech, does anyone in the group have the
>> ability to transcribe into English what was said directly from a
>> spectrogram of the phrase or sentence?
>>
>> Mike
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