1. Speech Science I
Perry C. Hanavan

2. Speech Sound Signal
Speech Analysis Tutorial
Physics in Speech

3. Hartmut Traunmüller Phonetic quality Affective quality
Personal quality
Transmittal quality

4. Information in Speech Signal
Type of Quality
Information Conveyed
Phenomena Involved
Linguistic phonetic quality
Social, conventional
The message; speaker’s dialect, sociolect, speech style, accent, etc.
Different words, speech sounds, prosodic patterns, etc.
Expressive quality
Psychological, within speaker variation
Speaker’s emotions, attitudes; adoption to environmental, etc.
Type of phonation, vocal effort, speech rate, liveliness, etc.
Organic quality
Physiological, anatomical, between speaker variation
Speaker’s age, sex, pathology, etc.
Size of the larynx, length of the supraglottal vocal tract, etc.
Perspectival quality
Physical, spatial
Where the speaker is in relation to the listener (and how he is oriented).
Illumination, projection angles, acoustic signal attenuation, etc.

5. Speech Samples
Sample One
Sample Two
Sample Three