1. Speech & Sound Editing Assignments Speech editing: Use a transferred speech segment from your MiniDisc recordings in which you pronounce all consonants very distinctly: (Hard consonants) In ‘Slip’ Mode, carefully select, then cut, a hard consonant [c/k, f, p, s, t] from the phrase:

2. Speech & Sound Editing Assignments Temporarily paste the cut consonant elsewhere on the track, and name it alphabetically for reference purposes: Repeat the above steps for at least two consonants, which can be placed together on the track prior to using them:

3. Speech & Sound Editing Assignments Next, begin using the hard consonants to make ‘virtual words’: First, find a phoneme you want to attach the switched consonant to, then zoom in all the way vertically and horizontally at the beginning to look for an appropriate ‘zero-crossing’ point at which to join the consonant. Good candidates will rise from, or fall towards, the zero point, and the opposite will be sought in the adjoining consonant: (With Trim Tool) Second, take the end of the previously removed hard consonant and do the same in reverse, trimming such that the wave rises to the zero point: (With Trim Tool)

4. Speech & Sound Editing Assignments In ‘Shuffle’ Mode, zoom out horizontally, then drag the consonant onto the other phoneme (or vice-versa): Zoom back in at the join, and examine it carefully to see if it is perfectly continuous; if not, apply a very brief crossfade to smooth it out:

5. Continue in similar fashion until at least two virtual words are completed. Continually verify that the words are as natural sounding as possible, as well as being alert to transient clicks, abrupt beginnings, endings or transitions, and other technical glitches. The virtual words should be handed in as a single mono AIF or WAV file. Include your initials in the file name, e.g. MP_speech_edit.aif The original recorded phrase should come first, followed by the virtual words. Leave one or two seconds of space between each virtual word. Speech & Sound Editing Assignments For those who find it too difficult to work with their own recording, I will provide a ‘recipe’ exercise from a given phrase, in which the following transformations are done:

6. in oo In the pit, the car's entire team seemed far too at ease. Original recorded phrase: Possible Virtual Words: Sue; Zoo; sin; since; teas(e); sit; sire, etc. Methodology: oos ire ’stease sit In the pit, the car's entire team seemed far too at ease. Speech & Sound Editing Assignments (Zoo) (Sue) ss (Since) inss

7. One ‘virtual sound’: Choose a sound with a sharp, distinctive attack Choose another sound with a slower attack and a longer decay In the virtual gesture, combine the two sounds such that the attack of the 1st sound leads directly to the 2nd, as if causing the latter to occur For the sound editing exercise, use similar techniques to create: Speech & Sound Editing Assignments